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The Armor is the maritime zone of the Brittany, in opposition to the Argoat.

The word comes from the continental Celtique Gaulois (of origin Norique to Central Europe) “rear” (access of) and “mor” (sea). One finds it in Armorique, but it should not be confused with this term (Armorique covers an old Celtic area covering also practically all the coast Norman.)

Etymology

Let us note that this “rear” noric have nothing to dohas nothing to do with the definite article Breton, homograph but of insular Celtic origin (Brittonique), that one finds in the Breton expression “ rear mor ”, the sea .

This “rear” proceeds in fact of an old Indo-European prefix (cf the Latin “per”, the Greek “para” or “share”, the German “VOR”), whose p intial fell (eg: Armorique: “are-mor-ica”, the “country which skirts the sea”). Indeed, the fall of the p initial is one of the characteristics of certain Celtic languages (to compare leun vs plenus, platus vs ledan, them vs floor,…)

In addition, the Breton prefix involves the lenitive change, also the term Arvor is righter while the article does not involve this change for the word “mor”. This is why one finds in Brittany of many place names, vis-a-vis the sea , called “Arvor” (into Breton: year Arvor ), more rarely “Armor”, which becomes, by joining of the article, “Larvor” or “Larmor”.

See too

Armor Magazine, a Breton monthly magazine of current events and information general practitioners on Brittany and the Celtic countries of Breton and European center spirit giving a broad place to the world of the economy and companies and to the Breton culture.
Armorique
Arvor (newspaper), weekly Newspaper of broadsheeted format in Breton language of Breton nationalist spirit which appeared under the German occupation to promote the illustration and the defense of the Breton language and its literature.
annual election of the Queen of Arvor.

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