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I don't really have a use for such a term if "land sufficient for the use of one family" isn't a romance conception. From everything stated here thus far, it looks like a bit of Anglo-Saxon foolishness which the really quite sensible Carthagenians would have no use for. I think C-a will stick with acres and ares. At least until the Greeks come with whatever measures of land THEY used, at least until the Arabs come with whatever measures of land THEY used, at least until the Normans come and restore Latinate measures, at least until metric catches on. Of course if the berbers or Phonecian/Punicos had still-know standard measures of land . . . Adam who makes things too complicated --- John Cowan <jcowan@hidden.email> wrote: > Adam Walker scripsit: > > > So is "hide" an old Englis/Germanic measure? If > so > > what is the eqivilant measure in some Romance > lang. > > I've never come across this unit before. > > The AHD Indo-European Roots Index says: > > # I. Basic form *kei-. 1. Suffixed form *kei-wo-. > a. hind3, > # from Old English hwan, members of a household, > from Germanic > # *hwa-; b. hide[3], from Old English hi:gid, hi:d, > a measure of land (< > # "household"), from suffixed Germanic form *hwid. > 2. Suffixed form > # *kei-wi-. city, civic, civil, from Latin ci:vis, > citizen (< "member of > # a household"). 3. Suffixed form *kei-liyo-. > ceilidh, from Old Irish > # céle, companion. > > So there is no exact equivalent. You could concoct > something based on civis. > > -- > John Cowan jcowan@hidden.email > www.reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan > "You cannot enter here. Go back to the abyss > prepared for you! Go back! > Fall into the nothingness that awaits you and your > Master. Go!" --Gandalf > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor > > To unsubscribe to this group, sell your soul to > Satan, do not pass go, do not collect $200. In other > words, you're stuck here now!! > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > ===== Il prori ul pa雝veju fi dji atexindu mutu madji fached. -- Carrajena proverb