commote means A secular division of land in mediaeval Wales. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 89 out of 100.
Etymology
Borrowed from Welsh cwmwd, from Middle Welsh kymhwt (literally “abode together”).
noun
- A secular division of land in mediaeval Wales.“Some cantrefi might comprise more than two commotes, for example, and the complement of townships would vary from commote to commote, determined by considerations other than mathematical symmetry.”
verb
- To disturb or agitate, to disrupt also in the positive sense, to put into (more) commotion, to stir up, to add to the activity of.“It was incidental to the closeness of relationship into which we had brought ourselves that an unfriendly state of feeling could not occur between any two members without the whole society being more or less commoted and made uncomfortable thereby.”