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> and discover `ORIGIN from Old French aveir de peis `goods of weight'.

yes, the french weights and measures system, before the definition of
the metre, changed depending on the town/region. dunkirk (iirc) to
barcelona -- 7 years of work (spanning the revolution) -- 'defined'
the metre.