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ǰé
[kawr-vey]
noun
unpaid labor for one day, as on the repair of roads, exacted by a feudal lord.
an obligation imposed on inhabitants of a district to perform services, as repair of roads, bridges, etc., for little or no remuneration.
ǰé
/ ˈɔːɪ /
noun
European history a day's unpaid labour owed by a feudal vassal to his lord
the practice or an instance of forced labour
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of ǰé1
Example Sentences
To do so, they resurrected ǰé, a 19th-century Haitian law for indentured labor.
Laborers forced into ǰé fled their captors and joined the fight.
Anyone who attempted to escape ǰé labor was treated like a deserter, and many were shot.
One polity in this nation developed the position of uparaja under Trailokanat and used a corvee system of nai and phrai before it fell to Alaungpaya.
He envied those not burdened with “water duty,” or “ǰé de l’eau,” as it is referred to here — the trek, and then the lowering of bowls or buckets, by rope, into the deep wells.
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