单词 | gwely |
释义 | gwelyn. (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. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > real or immovable property > land > land belonging to a gwely gwely1889 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > clan > [noun] > Welsh gwely1889 1889 H. Lewis Anc. Laws Wales iv. 81 There was..a family or gwely, then a joint family sprung from or including three generations of ancestors. 1889 H. Lewis Anc. Laws Wales vi. 167 Gavell is often used interchangeably with wele, which meant the holding of a family (gwely). 1895 F. 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. 1900 J. Rhys & D. 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. 1900 J. Rhys & D. Brynmor-Jones Welsh People vi. 197 There was no re-division of the ancestor's gwely after the second cousins had divided it. 1907 H. M. Chadwick Origin Eng. Nation xii. 324 In some laws,..we find..evidence for a system similar to that of the Welsh gwely. 1951 Trans. 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. 1951 Trans. Anglesey Antiq. Soc. & Field Club 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. 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 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < |
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