PATTERSON ON NEWFOUNDLAND DIALECT. liii 



Liveyer. This woid is used particularly on the coast of Labrador, 

 but also in Newfoundland, to denote a res-dent, in contrast with one 

 visiting for fishing or other purposes. It simply seems the word liver, 

 altered in the pronunciation. They treat the word lover in a similar 

 way, calling it loveyer, as is done in some English provincial dialects. 

 This, however, being from the Anglo-Saxon lufian, is nearer the original 

 than the common form. 



Logy, heavy and dull in respect of motion. Anglo-Saxon liggan, 

 Dutch logge, a sluggard. In the United States the word is applied to 

 men or animals, as a logy preacher or a logy horse. In Newfoundland, 

 in like manner, they will speak of a logy vessel, a slow sailer, and in 

 addition, when from \vant of wind a boat or vessel cannot get ahead or 

 can only proceed slowly, they will speak of having a logy time. 



Lun, a calm. This word exists in Scotch and northern English as 

 loun. It also appears in Swedish as lugn, pronounced lungn, and in old 

 Icelandic as logn, pronounced loan. 



Marebrowed. The word mare in Anglo-Saxon means a demon or 

 goblin, of which we have a survival in the word nightmare. But there 

 is in Newfoundland another survival of it in the word mare broived, 

 applied to a man whose eyebrows extend across his forehead, and who is 

 dreaded as possessed of supernatural powers. 



Midered or moidered, worried. In the latter form Halliwell gives it 

 as provincial English for distracted. 



Mouch, to play truant, and also applied to shirking work or duty. 

 This is the same with the old English word, variously spelled meeck, 

 meach and miche, to lie hid or skulk, hence to cower or to be servilely 

 humble or mean. The form mouch is still retained in the north of 

 Ireland and is common in Scotland. I lately observed it as used by 

 the tramps in New York to denote concealing or disguising one's self. 

 I find it also used by school boys in some parts of Nova Scotia. 



Mundel, a stick with a flat end for stirring meal when boiling for 

 porridge. Wright gives it as used in Leicestershire as an instrument 

 for washing potatoes, and he and Halliwell both give it as Northumber- 

 land, denoting a slice or stick used in making puddings. In Old Norse 

 there is a word mondull, pronounced mundull, which means a handle, 

 especially of a handmill, and the word is frequent in modern Ice- 

 landic. 



