| 释义 |
gwely|ˈgwɛlɪ|
[Welsh.]
a. A social unit that was once traditional in Wales, consisting of four generations of one family in which the great-grandfather, the head of the group, had proprietary right over its landed property.
b. The land held by the members of such a group.
1889H. Lewis Anc. Laws Wales iv. 81 There was..a family or gwely, then a joint family sprung from or including three generations of ancestors. Ibid. vi. 167 Gavell is often used interchangeably with wele, which meant the holding of a family (gwely). 1895F. Seebohm Tribal Syst. Wales i. 9 We shall see..that the wele or gwely was, strictly speaking, rather the family or kindred occupying the hamlet than the hamlet itself. 1900Rhys & Brynmor-Jones Welsh People vi. 195 The rights of the chief of household..and the lands in the occupation of himself and other members of his household were termed his gwely. Ibid. 197 There was no re-division of the ancestor's gwely after the second cousins had divided it. 1907H. M. Chadwick Origin Eng. Nation xii. 324 In some laws,..we find..evidence for a system similar to that of the Welsh gwely. 1951Trans. Anglesey Antiq. Soc. & Field Club 35 The local unit was the ‘gwely’, a specific area of land held, semi-communally, by a group of relatives. Ibid. 36 After the Edwardian conquest, new factors reinforced those already at work... Even within the gwely itself, the individual tribesman of initiative could often buy up the portions of his less fortunate or less energetic kinsmen. 1968Encycl. 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). |