trev

See also: Trev

English

Etymology 1

New Zealand slang sense: from characters named Trev in a television comedy of the 1970s. See Fred Dagg.

Pronunciation

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Noun

trev (plural trevs)

  1. (New Zealand, slang) A farm assistant or other rural worker; an ordinary country bloke.
  2. (British, slang) An urban lower-class youth.
    Synonym: chav

Etymology 2

Noun

trev (plural trevs)

  1. Alternative form of tref (“ancient hamlet”)
    • 1890, Frederic Seebohm, The English Village Community, page 204:
      This fixes for us the number of homesteads or tyddyns in the trev.

Anagrams

Cornish

Etmyology

From Proto-Brythonic *treβ, from Proto-Celtic *trebā, from Proto-Indo-European *treb-. Doublet of tre.

Noun

trev (collective, singulative treven f)

  1. farmsteads, homesteads
    Synonyms: trevow, trevethow

Derived terms

  • trevas (“harvest”)
  • trevbark (“housing estate”)
  • treveglos (“churchtown, village”)
  • trevek, trevel (“urban”)
  • trevelhe (“urbanise”, verb)
  • trevelheans (“urbanisation”)
  • trevesiga (“settle”, verb)
  • trevesiges f (“countrywoman, villager”)
  • trevesik m (“countryman, villager”)
  • treveth (“homestead, housing estate”)

Mutation

Mutation of trev
unmutated soft aspirate hard mixed mixed after 'th
trevas drevas threvas unchanged unchanged unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Cornish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Welsh

Noun

trev

  1. obsolete spelling of tref
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