Ady (unit)

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The Ady , also Adih or Adee, was a measure of length in the Madras presidency in East India and the name for the measure of foot . It was also called the Malabar foot .

  • 1 Ady = 117.77 Paris Lines = 0.26568 meters
  • 1 Ady = 10.46 inches (Engl.)
  • legal 24 Adies = 1 Kjuli / Culi / Culy = 20.92 feet (English = 0.3048 meters); in practice 26 adies = 22,663 feet

literature

  • Johann Michael Leuchs: The office science: Part: The complete money, coin, measure and weight. Volume 3, Verlag Leuchs und Komp., Nuremberg 1834, p. 135.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Author collective: Meyers Konversationslexikon. Volume 1, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig and Vienna, fourth edition, 1885–1892 p. 118.
  2. ↑ Christian Nelkenbrecher : JC Nelkenbrecher's General Pocket Book of Coin, Measure and Weight. Sanderschen Buchhandlung, Berlin 1828, p. 297.