mitta

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noun

An old English measure of volume, perhaps equal to two bushels.

OriginProto-West Germanic *metan →
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Meanings

nounmitta (plural mittas)

plural mittas · alternative mett

  1. historicalAn old English measure of volume, perhaps equal to two bushels.

    Once the mitta, or mett, a quantity of two bushels, is used for salt. The name still lingers in Lancashire.

    1866, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 1, page 168

Origin

  1. Proto-West Germanic*metan“to measure”
  2. Englishmitta

Perhaps from Proto-West Germanic *metan (“to measure”). Cognate with German Metze.

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