Kend

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The kend or child , also kint , is an Ethiopian unit of length , the Ethiopian equivalent of the cubit .

The kend was attached to the length of the forearm up to the tip of the thumb and at around 50 centimeters it corresponded to the cubit. The length specifications vary between 45 and 50 centimeters. The Ethiopian cubit was adapted to the metric system in the 20th century .

  • 1 Kend = 2 Sinscher = 0.457 meters
  • 1 kend = 50 centimeters

Madda was the larger measure of length in Ethiopia and one sat

  • 1 Madda = 10 Kend = 5.0 meters

The dimensional chain was

  • 1 Kend = 49/16 Sinzer / Sinscher = 49/8 Gat = 98/5 Tat

The values ​​of the individual dimensions from the dimensional chain were:

  • 1 kent = 49 centimeters
  • 1 Sinzer = 16 centimeters
  • 1 gat = 8 centimeters
  • 1 deed = 2.5 centimeters

Note: Do not confuse Tat with the Vietnamese measure of length That (14.63 meters).

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. 140 .
  • Academic Association Hut: Hut, the engineer's paperback. Volume 1, Berlin 1949, p. 1155.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brockhaus Encyclopedia in twenty volumes. Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Wiesbaden 1970, ISBN 978-3-76530-000-4 , p. 157.
  2. ↑ Helmut Kahnt, Bernd Knorr: Old dimensions, coins and weights. Verlag Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim 1986, ISBN 978-3-41102-148-2 , pp. 173, 286.
  3. ^ François Cardarelli: Encyclopaedia of Scientific Units, Weights and Measures. Springer Science and Business Media, London 2003, ISBN 978-1-85233-682-0 , Table 3-214 / Section 3.5.2.3.8.1.
  4. ^ Edward Wight Washburn : International Critical Tables of Numerical Data, Physics, Chemistry and Technology . Volume 1, Mc Graw-Hill Book Company Inc., New York 1926, p. 6.

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