Neighbor

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The next , derived from the Erzgebirge Ächtelein, was a very small volume measure in the retail trade for liquids. It was an eighth , so half a quarter, about 1/10 liter .

In Reichenbach it was a 1/4 pot . Two nights were therefore a nodule .

There was a saying: the hot neighbor shows a lot.

literature

  • Nathan Bailey, Johann Anton Fahrenkrüger: Bailey-Fahrenkrüger's Dictionary of the English Language. Part 1, Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1822, p. 666.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann August Ernst Köhler: Popular custom, superstition, sagas and other old traditions in Voigtlande. Verlag Fr. Fleischer, Leipzig 1867, p. 290.
  2. ↑ Robert Trögel: Basics of a local history of the Vogtland dialect. HW Schlimpert GmbH, 1925, p. 30.