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hernesheir commented on the word mountainey
"Unlike the urban Conroys, Mary lives on a "mountainey farm" (177) and is not accustomed to attending parties." -- "Joyce Through the Ages: a Nonlinear View"; Michael Patrick Gillespie, ed. p.167. 1999.
July 16, 2010
mollusque commented on the word mountainey
Interesting distinction you've found hernesheir: "mountainey" means "in the mountains" or "from the mountains", whereas "mountainy" means "full of mountains", "associated with mountains".
July 16, 2010
hernesheir commented on the word mountainey
Lots of meaning packed into that single "e", eh?
July 16, 2010
mollusque commented on the word mountainey
The priest's words weighed heavily on Maurice Galvin. His own shortcomings had long haunted him—mostly on windy nights in his lonely cottage, especially, for a season, when he lay abed with his head broken by a mountainey man at Ballyboy fair.
--Lewis Macnamara, 1898, "The reformation of Maurice Galvin", Pall Mall Magazine 16: 223
July 16, 2010