сотня

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Russian

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Etymology

со́тый (sótyj) +‎ -ня (-nja)

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Noun

со́тня (sótnjaf inan (genitive со́тни, nominative plural со́тни, genitive plural со́тен)

  1. 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.
  2. (historical) sotnia, company (Cossack military unit)
    Чёрная со́тняČórnaja sótnjaBlack Hundreds

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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

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Etymology

со́тий (sótyj) +‎ -ня (-nja)

Pronunciation

Noun

со́тня (sótnjaf inan (genitive со́тні, nominative plural со́тні, genitive plural со́тень)

  1. hundred
    со́тні ти́сяч люде́йsótni týsjač ljudéjhundreds of thousands of people
  2. (historical) sotnia, company (Cossack military unit)

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