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- chauvinism cheat, Old Fr. escheat check, Old Fr. eschec checker, Old Fr. eschequier checkmate, Old Fr. eschec mat, from Persian shah mat, compare modern Fr...
- Latin, scacchi in Italian, escacs in Catalan, échecs in French (Old French eschecs), schaken in Dutch, Schach in German, szachy in Polish, šahs in Latvian...
- ("caraway") كراوية chèque ("check") : from English check, itself from Old French eschec / echec (French échec), altered form of Latin scacus from Arabic صك, from...
- Cheque) check (cheque) (n.) from O.Fr. eschequier "a check at chess," from eschec, from V.L. *scaccus, from shah "king," the prin****l piece in a chess game...
- m****cript) Il nobillissimo Gioco delli Scacchi. (undated) Le Ieu des Eschecs de Ioachim Grez Calabrois (1625; known from a 1660 French translation with...
- ܩܛܪܐ mčayyoke English: check verb checking, inspecting The noun Old French eschec, from medieval Latin scaccus, via Arabic from Persian šāh (شاه, "king")...
- then 12th century French as eschac, giving rise to 12th century French eschec, which the English "check" derives from. The "mate" in checkmate is from...