Boîte

Luxembourgish

Etymology

Borrowed from French boîte.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [bwɑt]

Noun

Boîte f (plural Boîtten or Boîten)

  1. company, business
    Synonyms: Betrib, Firma
  2. letterbox
    Synonym: Bréifkëscht
  3. (automotive) gearbox

Usage notes
  • The official LOD now prescribes the spelling Boîtten for the plural because the vowel is short (thus analogously to Site > Sitten). However, this is unintuitive here because the digraph oî is specifically French and cannot be confused with a long vowel. Accordingly, Boîten is still widely found in otherwise well edited texts.
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