chent

See also: çhent

Norman

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Etymology

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) (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, 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

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Alternative form of cent

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