English
Noun
mitta
#an old English measure of volume, perhaps equal to two bushels. Also mett.
#:Quotations
#:*1866: Once the mitta, or mett, a quantity of two bushels, is used for salt. The name still lingers in Lancashire. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 1, p. 168.
Finnish
Etymology
From a Germanic language, compare mått
Noun
fi-noun
- size
- measure
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