Also Ssotnik, Sodnick. [Russ. сотникь sotnik’, f. sotnya: see prec.] A local official among the Cossacks; also, a commander of a sotnia.
1799. W. Tooke, View Russian Emp., I. 426. Every stanitza … has its officers, the atamans, its sotnik [etc.].
1814. trans. Klaproth’s Trav. Cauc., 73–4. In the hundred-towns the Ssotniks … transacted the business.
1854. R. G. Latham, Native Races Russian Emp., 56. Instead of the Russian official—the Sodnick or head of a certain number of villages—there would have been the native nobles.
