Early Hick Lexicon — Measurement Terms

Entries in the Measurement Terms semantic field.

barakter /ba.rak.ter/

league (distance walkable in one hour, roughly 3-4 miles) (noun) — Often shortened to rakter in colloquial speech [Measurement Terms, Distance Terms, Time Terms]

Distance measure based on one hour's walking time. Shows temporal suffix used for distance measurement.

brastran /bras.tran/

foot (unit of length, approximately arm-length) (noun) [Measurement Terms, Basic Terms]

Shows development of -ran as measurement suffix from *haranu 'length'

uran /u.rən/

inch (unit of length, approximately thumb-width) (noun) [Measurement Terms, Basic Terms]

Proto-Hick *ulu-haranu

Shows development of measurement system from body parts