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Re: Weekly Vocab #24



--- In romanceconlang@yahoogroups.com, John Cowan <jcowan@r...> wrote:
> Christian Thalmann scripsit:

> > I assumed a hide to be some 2 m^2.
> 
> Not hardly.  A hide was enough land to support a single (peasant) 
family.
> The size varied widely, depending on the quality of the land, but 
> ranged from 500,000 m^2 down to perhaps a quarter of that.

Strange...  it's not related to the size of a cow hide then?  ;-)


-- Christian Thalmann