desjatin
Swedish
Etymology
Swedish transcription of the plural form of Russian десяти́на (desjatína), based on деся́тый (desjátyj, “one-tenth”) and де́сять (désjatʹ, “ten”). It is called one-tenth because it was originally 1/10 of a verst squared. However, in 1753 it was regulated that one desyatina was 2400 square са́жень (sáženʹ), са́же́нь (sážénʹ, “fathom”) or 1.0925 hectares. Since 1 verst = 1066.8 metres and 1 sazhen = 1/500 of a verst = 2.1336 metres, this makes the desyatina = 0.96 × the square of 1/10 verst.
Noun
desjatin c
- a desyatina, an old (non-metric) Russian measure of land, 1.0925 hectares
- Genomsnittsavkastningen på en desjatin godsägarjord uppgick om den var utarrenderad till bönder, till 45 pud.
- The average yield for one desyatina farm land, if leased to farmers, was 45 pud.
- Där styckades de 12,000 desjatiner, som tillhörde svenskarna, mellan de fyra byarna.
- There the 12,000 desyatinas, which belonged to the Swedes, were divided among the four villages.
- Genomsnittsavkastningen på en desjatin godsägarjord uppgick om den var utarrenderad till bönder, till 45 pud.
Declension
| Declension of desjatin | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | desjatin | desjatinen | desjatiner | desjatinerna |
| Genitive | desjatins | desjatinens | desjatiners | desjatinernas |
References
- desjatin in Carl Magnus Ekbohrn, Förklaringar över 100,000 främmande ord och namn m.m. (1936)
- desjatin in Främmande ord i svenska språket. Folkets uppslagsbok (1927)