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Newfoundlander
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English
Etymology
en :af Newfoundland -er<id:inhabitant> + 1
Noun
en the <<isl:pref/Newfoundland>>, <<p/Newfoundland and Labrador>>, <<c/Canada>>.
en 1897 Rudyard Kipling Captains Courageous but so close lay the boats that even single hooks snarled, and Harvey found himself in hot argument with a gentle, hairy Newfoundlander on one side and a howling Portuguese on the other.
en 2025-12-29 Jones Lindsay A Newfoundland winter brings new risks to Coast Guard's biggest-ever operation. Crews at mercy of the elements as they work to clean up grounded ship w:The Globe and Mail A1 On a damp and blustery morning, three-metre swells crash into the cracked hull of the List_of_shipwrecks_in_2025#15_February MSC Baltic III, which was grounded on a pinnacle of rock on the west coast of Newfoundland earlier this year. The wind carries whiffs of rotten egg. Salvage crews in hard hats and neon yellow jackets inch along in a temporary cable car suspended high over the churning Atlantic. In a province with a long and dangerous maritime history, the Baltic's grounding in the roiling shallows of Cedar Cove last February is a story Newfoundlanders retell with incredulity. The cargo ship, en route to Corner Brook from Montreal, lost power in the early morning of Feb. 15 during a ferocious blizzard. The ship, packed with hundreds of containers of lumber, textiles, plastic beads, legumes and car parts, plus 1,600 metric tonnes of fuel, careered into the only safe harbour along a coast of towering cliffs. All 20 crew members were airlifted off the ship in a harrowing rescue by the Royal Canadian Air Force. Over the following months, salvage crews offloaded most of the 470 containers and siphoned out the fuel, which had hardened into an asphalt-like substance, in a multistage operation that involved heating it for days. At risk were local wildlife — migratory birds and the capelin and lobster that local fish harvesters rely on for their livelihoods. The goal of the work is to ready the ship for eventual dismantling and removal from the shoreline.
Related terms
en Newfie
Translations
native or inhabitant of Newfoundland
Basque: eu ternuar
French: fr Terre-Neuvien m, fr Terre-Neuvienne f
Ido: io Nova-Landano
Polish: pl nowofundlandzki
Spanish: es terranovense