noun, masculine/mɔ̃.ta.ɲaʁ/plural: Montagnards
Montagnard
From montagnard (“mountaineer, mountain-dweller”), from Middle French montaigne from Old French montaigne from Early Medieval Latin montānia, a collective based on Latin montem, from Proto-Italic *monts, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to stand out, to tower”).