Not being familiar with the shape of this hill, I'd think it likely that gribyn is a mutated form of cribyn / cribin meaning a rake (garden or farming implement). It could be that it was a shortened version of Y Gribyn Fach (the small rake), where y causes the mutation. Might the shape of the hill have ridges as does soil that has been raked? Or be long and thin with a wider cross piece at the end? Rhian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Katherine Benbow" <[email protected]> To: "RW POWYS list" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2010 4:08 PM Subject: [POWYS] meaning of gribyn > Could anyone give me a translation into English for "gribyn"? A family > member from Wales has told us in the past that he thinks Richard Benbow's > farm in the late 1600's and early 1700's was on Gribyn-fach hill above > Llawryglyn to the west of Trefeglwys. He showed it to us on a map when we > visited the area, and I took a picture of it. > > Lately, I have been looking at this location again, and it's no feat to > re-discover that "fach" means "small." That one's not hard. But, > although > I can use Google and find various Welsh place names with "gribyn" in them, > none of the online welsh-to-English dictionaries I've tried have the term > "gribyn" in their databases, and I can't seem to find the meaning > anywhere, > even when I try "gribin" and "gribbin." I don't know that some of these > dictionaries are right when they suggest "cribyn" as an alternative. > > I would greatly appreciate knowing the definition in English, and anything > interesting about the origin of the word. > > Katherine Benbow > > =================== > Visit the Powys Mailing List webpage at: > www.jlb2005.plus.com/powyslist.htm > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >

Well, here's the link to the photo of the hill, if that will help ... http://www.benbowfamily.com/showmedia.php?mediaID=59&all=1 Thanks! Katherine Benbow On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Rhian Williams < [email protected]> wrote: > Not being familiar with the shape of this hill, I'd think it likely that > gribyn is a mutated form of cribyn / cribin meaning a rake (garden or > farming implement). It could be that it was a shortened version of Y Gribyn > Fach (the small rake), where y causes the mutation. Might the shape of the > hill have ridges as does soil that has been raked? Or be long and thin with > a wider cross piece at the end? > > Rhian > >