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