menuta

Franco-Provençal

Etymology

Borrowed from French minute.

Noun

menuta f (plural menutes) (ORB, broad)

1. minute (unit of time)

References

• minute in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• menuta in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Further information

• ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France^[1] [Linguistic Atlas of France] – map 861: “deux minutes” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “mĭnūtus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 6/2: Mercatio–Mneme, page 138