chent

See also: çhent

Norman

**Norman cardinal numbers**
< 99	100	101 >
Cardinal : chent

Etymology

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

Numeral

chent

(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)

(Jersey) hundredweight

Old French

Noun

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

Alternative form of cent