Undermountain: noun, adjective or verb. Depending on its use, undermountain has a variety of pronunciations. As a noun, it is read simply as "under-mountain." As an adjective, it could be read either as "under-mountained" or "under-mountainous" where the obviously unwritten "ed" and "ous" act as a counter-balance to the many times when English has silent letters. As a verb, on the other hand, the word is read as "under-mountayn." These varying pronunciations, though they may be confusing, serve to distinguish the different meanings listed below:
1. As a noun, the word simply denotes a place that is under mountains. We can use it in sentences like the following "In the undermountains of Switzerland, there was a village where dogs ate cats, horses ate dogs and humans ate (and still eat) the horses."
2. As an adjective, the word refers to a place that is deemed to have too few mountains to function properly, for example Holland.
3. As for the verb, to undermountain means to be creating too few mountains in an area, which is what the Dutch have often been complaining to God about in several public letters.
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