Word: vershoks
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: ver
shoks
Definition: Plural of vershok. A native system of weights and measures was used in Imperial Russia and after the Russian Revolution, but it was abandoned after 21 July 1925, when the Soviet Union adopted the metric system, per the order of the Council of People's Commissars
Morphemes:
Affix: vershok
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: An old Russian unit of length, approximately 4. 4centimetres.
Affix: -s
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form the plural of nouns that correctly take just an "s" in the plural. See greengrocer’s apostrophe.