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12:39 Mar 15, 2008 |
German to English translations [PRO] Genealogy / Plattdeutsch | |||||||
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4 +2 | half-size farm |
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half-size farm Explanation: I think you're right that Plats = Plats. And Haberkern/Wallach's Hilfswörterbuch für Historiker says that in Ostfriesland Heerd was the word for Hof. "Half farm" is an oversimplification, because we think of farms as varying in size. But in feudal Europe land was designated "hides" of a specific size (German Hufe / Hub), and a farmer could hold a whole, half, quarter, or eighth hide, depending on how prosperous he was. In England, according to the Domesday Book, a hide was 120 acres. But it may have varied from place to place on the continent. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 32 mins (2008-03-15 13:12:08 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- http://books.google.com/books?id=dYEMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA96&lpg=PA... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 5 hrs (2008-03-15 17:49:09 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Oops! I meant to say Plats = Platz. |
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