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.