- 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...
- m****cript) Il
nobillissimo Gioco delli Scacchi. (undated) Le Ieu des
Eschecs de
Ioachim Grez
Calabrois (1625;
known from a 1660
French translation with...
- 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...
- ("caraway") كراوية chèque ("check") : from
English check,
itself from Old
French eschec /
echec (French échec),
altered form of
Latin scacus from
Arabic صك, from...
- ܩܛܪܐ mčayyoke English:
check verb checking,
inspecting The noun Old
French eschec, from
medieval Latin scaccus, via
Arabic from
Persian šāh (شاه, "king")...
-
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...
- 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...
