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My "Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology" says that 'holm(e)' was used in English meaning 'islet' in the 11th century and 'low-lying land by a river' in the 13th. As related words it gives...

There is a word 'Pfund' which refers to different weight measurements depending on what time and place you're looking at, these days it is half a kilogram. 'Pund' is dialectal at best.

Robin

I had to look that one up and I am German. A word for 16 kilos? Funny. But there's a German Wikipedia article which lists this as an old Russian measure of weight.

Robin

If there is just a sentence in quotation marks with no part of the complete sentence outside, the full stop goes inside the quotation marks, too.

"There is a full stop inside the quote."

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