Benne (unit)

Benne was a measure of volume for coals . The word means car body in Alsace , southwest Germany and Tyrol . In the Rhineland and the Netherlands the corresponding word was ben for the woven basket. In English, am for the box. The Tyrolean variant was the changed spelling. The penne , also coal penne, was the measure of volume here. The term is also derived from the large basket on a cart.

• Tyrolean value: 1 penne = 22.66 cubic feet = 7.147 cubic meters

literature

• Johannes Kramer: A - B. Volume 1 of Etymological Dictionary of the Dolomites Ladin. Buske Verlag 1988, ISBN 978-3-87118-991-3 , p. 269.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Daniel Sanders: Foreign dictionary: L - Z. Volume 2, Otto Wigand, Leipzig 1871, p. 217.