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Small Breton language lexicon

You don’t need to speak it to make yourself understood, your most sincere smile and a few gestures will open the doors to this country of a thousand secrets, but you never know…

COURTESY

  • Demat : Hello
  • Degemer mat : Welcome
  • Noz vat : Good evening
  • Kenavo : Goodbye
  • Trugarez : Thank you
  • Yec’hed mat : Cheers/to you
  • Mat ar jeu : How are you?

GÉOGRAPHIE

  • Armor / arvor : Country near the sea (Breton coastline)
  • Argoat : Country of the wood (central Brittany)
  • Breizh (BZH): Brittany
  • Brezhoneg : Breton
  • Mor : Sea (Morbihan: small sea)
  • Gwen ha du : White and black (Breton flag)
  • Penn ar bed : The end of the world (Finistère)
  • Enez : Island
  • Plou : Parish
  • Breizh atao : Brittany always
  • Pouldu : Black sea/black hole
  • Aber : Estuary
  • Aven : River
  • Traezh: Beach