| 释义 |
‖ tref Wales.|trɛv|
[W., hamlet, home, town.]
A social unit that was once traditional in Wales, consisting of a hamlet or homestead or the community occupying it (see quot. 1889).
1841A. Owen tr. Anc. Laws & Institutes of Wales 1004/2 Trev, a vill:—A territorial division of land containing four gavaels or 256 erws. 1889H. Lewis Anc. Laws Wales i. iii. 57 In modern Welsh ‘trev’ means a village or town, in ancient times it is said to have meant a single house or homestead... In..laws we have a frequent use of trev in a sense having reference to the land of the joint family, that is to their settlement and group of dwellings. 1895Wales July 304/2 There was a good deal of feasting amongst the hillside trefs. 1900Rhys & Brynmor-Jones Welsh People vi. 218 We now turn to consider briefly the law relating to property in or possession of land... The cymwd was thus divided: Four erwau in every tyðyn (homestead),..four gafaelion in every tref (vill or township). 1968[see gwely]. |