Cad (unit)

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The kad (also called okow ) was a Russian measure of volume for dry goods. The oldest mention goes back to the 12th century. Kad and the Osmina can be found in grain prices in Novgorod between 1137 and 1231. The last evidence of Okow related to prices is 1420, then the Cheet value (from 1469) becomes the grain size.

  • 1 Kad = 8 Osmina = 4 Tschetwert = 839.6 liters

literature

  • Helmut Kahnt, Bernd Knorr: Old measures, coins and weights: a lexicon . Licensed edition of the Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig. Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim / Vienna / Zurich 1986, ISBN 3-411-02148-9 , p. 134 .
  • Johann Christian August Heyse, Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Heyse: General German and explanatory foreign dictionary: with designation of the pronunciation and emphasis of the words and precise indication of their origin and education. Hahn'sche Hofbuchhandlung, Hanover 1853, p. 615.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Magnus Georg Paucker: Contents overview of the work on measure, weight and coin of the Russian Empire and its German Baltic countries. Imperial Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg 1832, p. 10.