noun General Slang

alltud

· noun · welsh

Welsh for a foreigner or exile — someone from outside the tribe.

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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

People Also Ask

What does "alltud" mean?

It's Welsh for a foreigner or exile — someone from outside the tribe.

How do you use "alltud" in a sentence?

"To the locals he was still an alltud, an outsider."

What language is "alltud"?

It's a Welsh word.

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