noun
General Slang
alltud
· noun · welsh
Welsh for a foreigner or exile — someone from outside the tribe.
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Definitions
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A foreigner, outsider or exile. In medieval Welsh law it was a specific legal status — an alltud had their own honour-price and compensation rates but couldn't testify against a native Cymro. Today it carries the older flavour of 'someone not of this land'.
“Under Hywel Dda's laws an alltud needed a lord to vouch for them.”
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alltud In A Sentence
Under Hywel Dda's laws an alltud needed a lord to vouch for them.
Origin & Usage
Welsh, equivalent to Anglo-Saxon el-theod ('other people') and rendered in Latin Welsh law texts as exul.
Variants
alltudion
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