Tael

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Tael

A unit of weight in Taiwan approximately equivalent to 37.5 grams. It is used primarily in the sale of bulk foodstuffs. An equivalent term is niu.

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To cool down the local surging gold demand, the SBV allowed the Saigon Jewelry Company (SJC), who is entrusted by the SBV as the sole gold bar processor in Vietnam, to process 350,000 taels of Gold, equivalent to 13 tons, to fill in the local shortage of Gold supply.

Gold liquidity worsening in Vietnam as demand outpaces supply

Also, in Erelt, Kasik, Metslang, Rajandi, Ross, Saari, Tael, Vare 1993 : 145 is mentioned wholeness in connection with elative NPs.

Scalarity and dimensionality across categories Estonian pseudopartitive constructions

100 Taels Russo-Chinese Bank Specimen from 1907 and over 300 lots of rare and unique Chinese banknotes

Historic Auction of American Bank Note Company Archives, Part VI in NYC, October 22 & 23, 2010 of U.S. & Worldwide Banknotes, Stock Certificates, Bonds and Security Printing Ephemera

Most Finnish -AhtA momentatives, for instance, are descriptive and Estonian -ata momentatives typically express onomatopoetic sounds of nature (Hakulinen, Vilkuna, Korhonen, Koivisto, Heinonen, Alho 2004 : 308; Erelt, Kasik, Metslang, Rajandi, Ross, Saari, Tael, Vare 1995 : 453-454).

Frequentative and momentative verbal derivation in Veps

According to certain phonological modifications grade alternation can be classified on the basis of its direction (strengthening/weakening), and type (quantity, length and quality alternation) (Erelt, Kasik, Metslang, Rajandi, Ross, Saari, Tael, Vare 1995 : 144-145; Erelt, Erelt, Ross 1997 : 173-174).

Grade alternation in Voro South Estonian

piastres = 72-5 francs; I assume '1 bar of silver' equalled a 1-ounce tael (see Havard, APF, V [1830]: 345).

Extortion and exploitation in the Nguyen campaign against Catholicism in 1830s-1840s Vietnam

Carletti quotes a price of 90 tael per picul, while Jan Huig van Linschoten indicates 140-145 Pesos de a ocho (approximately 100 tael) per picul for medium-quality and 150 to 170 Pesos for high-quality spun raw silk.

The seizure of the Sta. Catarina revisited: The Portuguese Empire in Asia, VOC politics and the origins of the Dutch-Johor alliance (1602 - c.1616)

73 -- Ted Lyford, Redlands; Edward Tael, Sherman Oaks.

Southern California Golf Association: 88th California Amateur Championship, Southern California Local Qualifying

Other descriptions, such as EKG I (Erelt, Kasik, Metslang, Rajandi, Ross, Saari, Tael, Vare 1995), Viks 1992 and OS (Eesti keele sonaraamat OS 2006), arrive at a slightly different breakdown of classes and subtypes.

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5) For example, EKK (2000 : 277) propose four basic classes, EKG I (Erelt, Kasik, Metslang, Rajandi, Ross, Saari, Tael, Vare 1995 : 344ff.

Conjugation classes in Estonian/[TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]

Erelt 1989; Erelt, Kasik, Metslang, Rajandi, Ross, Saari, Tael, Vare 1993 (= EKG II)).

Voice and modal verbs in Estonian/[TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]

In EKG I (Erelt, Kasik, Metslang, Rajandi, Ross, Saari, Tael, Vare 1995 : 51) is stressed that the use of directional cases with verbs like unustama 'to forget', jatma 'to leave' is a feature that distinguishes Estonian from Indo-European languages.