chent

See also: çhent

Norman

Norman cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : chent

Etymology

From Old Northern French chent (Old French cent), from Latin centum, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥tóm.

Numeral

chent

1. (Jersey, France) one hundred
   • 1903, Edgar MacCulloch, “Proverbs, Weather Sayings, etc.”, in Guernsey Folk Lore‎^[1], page 512:

     L'amour hâle pûs que chent bœufs.

     Love draws more than a hundred oxen.

Derived terms

• deux chents (“two hundred”)
• trais chents (“three hundred”)
• quat' chents (“four hundred”)
• chîn chents (“five hundred”)
• siêx chents (“six hundred”)
• sept chents (“seven hundred”)
• huit chents (“eight hundred”)
• neu chents (“nine hundred”)

Noun

chent m (plural chents)

1. (Jersey) hundredweight

Old French

Noun

chent oblique singular, m (oblique plural chenz or chentz, nominative singular chenz or chentz, nominative plural chent)

1. Alternative form of cent