Iournade / Journade

English translation: Acre

08:26 Feb 25, 2014
French to English translations [PRO]
Agriculture
French term or phrase: Iournade / Journade
I am translating a documentary on agriculture, and I have been unable to find an English translation for the term '"Iournade" or possibly '"Journade".
It means the area that two oxen can work in day "la surface que pouvait labourer une paire de bœufs dans la journée, qui pouvait faire 20 ares en plaine et 27 sur les côteaux"

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!
Deirdre Brophy (X)
France
English translation:Acre
Explanation:
The area you give 20 ares is about an acre (I think) and an acre was the original area able to be worked by 2 horses in England, long time ago.
Perhaps there is an old French term for acre. Does the word 'are' come from 'acre'?
This really is food for thought or my ramblings, so wait for other answers.
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Bashiqa
France
Local time: 18:05
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Thanks, acre seems to be an equivalent English term, bearing in mind that the surface area is not the same
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1 +1Acre
Bashiqa
Summary of reference entries provided
journal de boeufs, jugère
piazza d

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Acre


Explanation:
The area you give 20 ares is about an acre (I think) and an acre was the original area able to be worked by 2 horses in England, long time ago.
Perhaps there is an old French term for acre. Does the word 'are' come from 'acre'?
This really is food for thought or my ramblings, so wait for other answers.

Bashiqa
France
Local time: 18:05
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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Grading comment
Thanks, acre seems to be an equivalent English term, bearing in mind that the surface area is not the same

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Alison Kapor (X): http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/4100/acre and http://www.hemyockcastle.co.uk/measure.htm
2 hrs
  -> Thank you. Nice to know that the old grey matter is still capable of working.

neutral  Clive Phillips: If a hectare is 100 ares and an acre is about 0.4047 hectare, then I make an acre roughly equivalent to 40.47 ares. So 20 ares/day on level soil would approximate to half an acre per day. Or am I missing something?
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Reference: journal de boeufs, jugère

Reference information:
La labourée de bœufs est une mesure agraire ancienne, autrement dit une mesure de superficie.

Elle correspond à la surface pouvant être labourée par un attelage de bœufs,
soit en une seule journée, c'est-à-dire un journal de bœufs ou un jugère,
see wikipedia


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