tunctunkn.

A kind of customary rent or payment (analogous to the ‘chief-rents’ or ‘quit-rents’ of English Real Property Law), issuing out of certain lands in North Wales, and still until recently payable in respect of Crown Lands. Commonly explained as the money-commutation paid in lieu of the gwestva (in Latin cena), an entertainment due or tribute-in-kind rendered to the lord of the cymwd or prince, in respect of the free maenols of the cymwds (see commot n.). Hence translated by Seebohm as ‘food-rent’. As to the derivation, the conjecture has been offered that an oath was originally required of inability to render the gwestva in kind, before the tunc-pound was accepted instead.