The story
- Russian · borrowed fromкопе́йка
- English todaykopek
Borrowed from Russian копе́йка (kopéjka), from копьё (kopʹjó, “spear”) (from the image of a rider with a spear on the coins minted by Moscow after the capture of Novgorod in 1478). Doublet of kapeyka and kopiyka.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.