važiuotos ir pėsčios lažo dienos
English translation: days of manual and animal-assisted (corvee) labour
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days of distant and local service Explanation: I think the meaning here is važiuotos (distant) and pėsčios (local) days of service, but the first time the term appears you would probably need a footnote to make it clear, because it's not an everyday subject. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2013-10-08 22:46:52 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- But važiuoti (intransitive verb) means to go yourself (in a vehicle), whereas to convey would be vežti (transitive verb). That's why I suspect it's more a case of working nearby (walking there) or working farther afield – e.g. if the „ponas“ has another estate elsewhere or perhaps he is lending labour to another „ponas“. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2013-10-08 22:48:43 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Kas yra Važiuotas? | Terminų žodynas www.zodynas.lt › Terminų žodynasTranslate this page važiuot|as, važiuota vykstantis važiuokle; priešingai pėsčias: Pilnas kelias važiuotų ir pėsčių. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 9 hrs (2013-10-09 06:58:36 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- OK, I think „po šešias pėsčias ir po šešias važiuotas“ would be "six days of manual labour and six days of animal-assisted labour". -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 22 hrs (2013-10-09 20:07:18 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Diana, this word "corvee" is new to me, but « days of manual and animal-assisted corvee labour » does sound appropriate in the context. Search Results Corvée - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corvée Corvée, or statute labour, was unpaid labour imposed by the state on certain classes of people, such as peasants, for the performance of work on public projects. corvée - definition of corvée by the Free Online Dictionary ... www.thefreedictionary.com/corvée Labor exacted by a local authority for little or no pay or instead of taxes and used especially in the maintenance of roads. www.thefreedictionary.com/corvee 1. unpaid labor for one day, as on the repair of roads, exacted by a feudal lord. corvée | Infoplease.com corvée , under the feudal system, compulsory, unpaid labor demanded by a lord or king and the system of such labor in general. |
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