Head (measure)
A head , also Köpf or Küpf, is an old name for a spherical or hemispherical drinking vessel with feet. In addition to the measure, it is mentioned in the Bavarian state order of 1516, where it should have measured just under a liter.
description
The head is an old Upper and Low German measure for liquid or dry things. In addition, the head was a weight in Switzerland and in Holstein there was “en kopp botter, a piece of a certain weight, the name because the piece is measured and shaped with a bowl-like vessel, the botterkopp.” It corresponded to a weight of 1 pound 10 loth.
| Place / area | Classification | Variety |
|---|---|---|
| liquids | ||
| Zurich | 1 head = 2 measure, 4 quarts and 8 stumps | 8 heads = 1 quarter, 32 heads = 1 bucket |
| Austria | 1 head = 2 2 ⁄ 5 pintles | 1 2 ⁄ 3 heads = 1 measure |
| regensburg | 1 head = 2 pills | |
| dry things | ||
| Aachen | 4 heads = 1 barrel, 24 heads = 1 Malter grain | |
| Basel | 1 cup = 2 cups | 4 pots = 1 bushel (tired), 32 heads = 1 sack of grain |
| Holland | 32 heads = 1 bushel | |
| Hanover | 1 head = the 16th part of a bushel | |
| Weight | ||
| Switzerland | 1 head = 7 pounds | |
Related are the terms Latin cupa, cupellus, scyphus , Old High German choph, chuph , Middle High German head , English cup , Italian coppa , French couppe Old Norse koppr , Swedish kopp (cap) , Danish kop , Dutch , Low German kop and others.
literature
- head, m. poculum, calix. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 11 : K - (V). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1873, Sp. 1744–1747 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
Web links
- A glass jug collection - over 5,000 different glass jugs and boots !
Individual evidence
- ^ Johann Christoph Adelung: 1. The head . In: Grammatical-Critical Dictionary of High German Dialect: According to the last edition 1793–1801 . tape 2 : F-L . Breitkopf, Leipzig 1796, p. 1710 ( zeno.org ).
- ↑ En Kopp Botter . In: Johann Friedrich Schütze (Ed.): Holsteinisches Idiotikon, a contribution to the history of folk customs (etc.) . Part 2. Villaume, Hamburg 1801, p. 322 ( books.google.de ).