вершок

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Etymology

Per Vasmer, from верх (verx, top) +‎ -о́к (-ók), probably originally "length of the upper phalanx of the index finger".

Pronunciation

Noun

вершо́к (veršókm inan (genitive вершка́, nominative plural вершки́, genitive plural вершко́в)

  1. an old Russian unit of length approximately equal to 4.445 centimeters or 1/16 of an arshin

Declension

References

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “вершок”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress