сотня

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Russian

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Etymology

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со́тый (sótyj) +‎ -ня (-nja)

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈsotʲnʲə]
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Noun

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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

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  • 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

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со́тий (sótyj) +‎ -ня (-nja)

Pronunciation

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Noun

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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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