Where does “tchînta” come from?
tchînta (Norman) comes from Latin quintale, from Arabic قِنْطَار, from Syriac qanṭīrā, from Greek κεντηνάριον, from Latin centenarium, from Latin centum, from Latin folium, from Proto-Italic *foljom.
tchînta (Norman): quintal
Ancestry of “tchînta”, step by step