Welsh Hist. Forms: 5 commott, 6–8 comot, 7– commot(e. [a. Welsh cymwd, kymwt, in mod.W. cwmmwd, neighborhood, locality (cf. cymydog neighbor).] In Wales, a territorial and administrative division; usually subordinate to a cantref or cantred.
[1284. Statut. Walliæ (Spelman). Vicecomes de Kaernarvan sub quo Cantreda de Arvan, Cantreda de Artlentayth, Commotum de Conkyn, Cantreda de Ailen, & Commotum de Irmemch.]
1495. Act 1 Hen. VII., c. 33 § 17. The commottis of Nanconwey and Dynllane.
1535. Act 27 Hen. VIII., c. 26 § 3. Manours … within the compas … of the said … parishes, commotes, & cantredes.
1584. H. Lloyd, Caradoc’s Hist. Cambria, 12.
1610. Holland, Camden’s Brit., I. 665. Eastward … standeth Mouthwy a Commot very well knowne.
1627. Speed, England, i. § 7. They [the Cantreves] were subdiuided into their Cymedeu or Commots.
1723. H. Rowlands, Mona Antiqua (1766), 114. Anglesey is … divided … into three Cantrefs, and each of these into two Comots.
1836. J. Downes, Mt. Decam., I. 156. On the promontory of the Creiddyn, that commot or hundred of Carnarvonshire.
b. Sometimes identified with: A seigniory, lordship, or manor.
1628. Coke, On Litt., 5 a. A commote is a great seigniory and may include one or divers manors.
1889. H. Lewis, Anc. Laws Wales, 162–3.
¶ Ignorant writers have confounded the word with OE. mót, ʓemót, or L. commōtus, and spoken of it as a gathering or assembly. In Les Termes de la Ley (1641), it is confounded with COMMORTH (misspelt commoith).
