вершок
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Russian
Etymology
Per Vasmer, from верх (verx, “top”) + -о́к (-ók), probably originally "length of the upper phalanx of the index finger".
Pronunciation
Noun
вершо́к • (veršók) m inan (genitive вершка́, nominative plural вершки́, genitive plural вершко́в)
- an old Russian unit of length approximately equal to 4.445 centimeters or 1/16 of an arshin
Declension
Declension of вершо́к (inan masc-form velar-stem accent-b reduc)
Descendants
- → English: vershok
References
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “вершок”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress