hafod

From Welsh hafod.

hafod (plural hafods)

1. A Welsh summer dwelling.

From haf (“summer”) +‎ bod (“dwelling, abode”).

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈhavɔd/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈhaːvɔd/, /ˈhavɔd/

hafod m (plural hafodydd or hafodau, not mutable)

1. summer dwelling (upland dwelling, where the family and livestock dwell over the summer before returning to the hendref in the valley)

• hendref (“winter abode”)

• hafod unnos (“dwelling built overnight on common land”)
• hafota (“to live in a summer abode”)

• hendrefa (“to live in a winter abode”)
• trawstrefa (“to practise transhumance”)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “hafod”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies