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Russian
Etymology
со́тый (sótyj) + -ня (-nja)
Pronunciation
Noun
со́тня • (sótnja) f inan (genitive со́тни, nominative plural со́тни, genitive plural со́тен)
- a hundred
1904, Леонид Андреев, “Отрывок десятый”, in Красный смех; English translation from Alexandra Linden, transl., The Red Laugh, London: T. Fisher, 1905:Я не понимаю войны и должен сойти с ума, как брат, как сотни людей, которых привозят оттуда.- Ja ne ponimaju vojny i dolžen sojti s uma, kak brat, kak sotni ljudej, kotoryx privozjat ottuda.
- I do not understand war, and I must go mad, like my brother, like the hundreds of men that are sent back from there.
- (historical) sotnia, company (Cossack military unit)
- Чёрная со́тня ― Čórnaja sótnja ― Black Hundreds
Declension
Related terms
References
- Shaposhnikov, A. K. (2010) “сотня”, in Этимологический словарь современного русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Contemporary Russian Language] (in Russian), volumes 2: (Начать – Я), Moscow: Flinta; Nauka, →ISBN, page 360
Ukrainian
Etymology
со́тий (sótyj) + -ня (-nja)
Pronunciation
Noun
со́тня • (sótnja) f inan (genitive со́тні, nominative plural со́тні, genitive plural со́тень)
- hundred
- со́тні ти́сяч люде́й ― sótni týsjač ljudéj ― hundreds of thousands of people
- (historical) sotnia, company (Cossack military unit)
Declension
Declension of со́тня (inan soft fem-form accent-a reduc)
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