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liveyere Canad.|ˈlɪvjə(r)|
Also liveyer, livier, livyer(e.
[Prob. f. the phr. live here (see below).]
(See quot. 1909.) Also a permanent resident (as opp. to visiting fishermen, etc.).
Dict. Canadianisms suggests that the term ‘may be >.
1863J. Moreton Life & Work in Newfoundland iii. 35 It is said of any uninhabited place that there are no liviers in it. 1881Earl of Dunraven in 19th Cent. IX. 93 A ‘livier’ signifies a person who lives all the year around in a locality, in contradistinction to one who visits it during the fishing season. 1895W. Grenfell Vikings of To-day 57 The summer Labrador settlements are on islands or outside headlands, and here both Newfoundlanders and ‘Livyeres’ dwell, the latter retiring up the bays and inlets, to be nearer wood and game, when the former return to Newfoundland. 1901Chambers's Jrnl. Jan. 68/2 The residents along this coast are termed ‘livyres’ (live heres), to distinguish them from the nomadic fisherfolk. 1905N. Duncan Dr. Grenfell's Parish i. 12 The shore fishermen of the remoter Newfoundland coasts, the Labrador ‘liveyeres’, the Indians of the forbidding interior. 1907D. Wallace Long Labrador Trail xxiii. 273 Even tea and molasses, usually found amongst the ‘livyeres’ (liveheres) of the coast, were lacking. 1909Toilers of Deep July 176/1 The permanent inhabitants of the Labrador coast, the ‘liveyers’ are about three thousand in number. 1925Dialect Notes V. 335 Livyere, one who lives here (in Newfoundland), usually an outport man. 1955Arctic Terms 50/1 Liveyere, a corruption of ‘live here’, used in south-eastern Labrador to designate a semisettled inhabitant who customarily has a summer dwelling near coastal fishing grounds and a winter dwelling in an inland valley or in a mission settlement. 1966A. R. Scammell My Newfoundland 47 The steamer had just turned the point, whistled hoarsely a couple of times to alert the livyers. 1969H. Horwood Newfoundland xxv. 204 Most of the Livyers today are black-haired and a little darker than most Europeans... But many Livyers with blond hair, blue eyes, and fair skin keep cropping up too. |