tomna [Maltese]

Plural, tmiem. From the Maltese word tmienja, “eight”. In Malta , ? - 20^th century (United Nations, 1966)¹ two units:

1

A unit of dry capacity for cereals, = 0.5 imperial bushels (approximately 18.18 liters). In an earlier period, when Maltese units were influenced by those of Palermo, this unit was known as the tomolo (plural tomoli), which Doursther (1840) describes as 18.10 liters.

2

A unit of land area, = 6 sigħan, approximately 1,124.1 square meters (about 0.278 acre). This is a seed measure of land that is based on the unit of capacity above.

1. The entry for the tomna in the UN document is in error: a decimal point was dropped. The “5” in the “British” column should be “.5”. Apparently the metric column was calculated from the mistaken British value.