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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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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

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Descendants

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  • English: vershok

References

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