Etymology

sotnia

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Today it means: A Russian or Ukrainian army unit of about a hundred soldiers, chiefly with reference to Cossacks. Full definition →

Russian сотня
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The story

  1. Russian · borrowed fromсотня“hundred”
  2. English todaysotnia

From Russian сотня (sotnja, “hundred”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.