单词 | tref |
释义 | trefn. Wales. A social unit that was once traditional in Wales, consisting of a hamlet or homestead or the community occupying it (see quot. 1889). ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > village > [noun] > village in countries other than England casal1511 clachana1530 rancheria1594 aldeia1609 stanitza1662 kraal1731 pettah1761 township1789 pueblo1808 rancho1819 kainga1820 aoul1828 bustee1834 obe1835 tref1841 kampong1844 mir1856 manyatta1905 lapa1909 shtetl1963 1841 A. Owen tr. Anc. Laws & Instit. of Wales 1004/2 Trev, a vill:—A territorial division of land containing four gavaels or 256 erws. 1889 H. 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. 1895 Wales July 304/2 There was a good deal of feasting amongst the hillside trefs. 1900 J. Rhys & D. 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 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 156/2 A movement toward more stationary settlement among freemen slowly spread..over the whole country, splitting the maenor into smaller township units (trefs)..and laying the foundations of the hamlets and clanlands (gwelys). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1841 |
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