seit [Burmese]

In Burma, ? – 20th century, two units of capacity (UN 1955). The word means a fourth.

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...a seit, a measure of capacity equal to the quarter of a tin () or two tsaroots...

Robert C. Stevenson.
Judson's Burmese-English Dictionary. Revised and Enlarged.
Rangoon: Printed by the Superintendent, Government Printing, 1893.
Page 394.

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