desjatin

Etymology
Swedish transcription of the plural form of, based on and. 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, 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

 * 1) 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.