köken: From the Old East Slavic стихъ (stixŭ), from the Old Church Slavonic стихъ (stixŭ), from the Ancient Greek στίχος (stíkhos, “row, line, verse”).
Стих каждый повести твоей звучит и блещет, как червонец.
köken: From Middle Dutch versch, from Old Dutch *fersk, *frisk, from Proto-West Germanic *frisk, from Proto-Germanic *friskaz, from Proto-Indo-European *preysk-. Doublet of fris. Cognate with German frisch, West Frisian farsk, English fresh, Danish fersk, Norwegian Bokmål fersk, Swedish färsk.
köken: jakaa (“to divide”) + -e. Attested in Mikael Agricola's translation of the New Testament, where it is used in the plural to refer to pagan rites as an explanatory note for Romans 12(:6). Senses related to division are from the late 19th century; first use pertaining to Biblical verses from circa 1916.
köken: Borrowed from English verse, ultimately from Latin versus (“a line in writing, and in poetry a verse; (originally) row, furrow”), from vertō (“to turn around”).
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱélh₂m̥ Ancient Greek κάλαμος (kálamos)der. Arabic قَلَم (qalam)bor. Classical Persian قَلَم (qalam)bor. Gujarati કલમ Borrowed from Classical Persian قَلَم (qalam).