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Chess in another example. If memory serves, "Checkmate" was derived from the Arabic "Sheikh maat" (the Sheikh has died).
by subliminalpanda 9y ago
Chess in another example. If memory serves, "Checkmate" was derived from the Arabic "Sheikh maat" (the Sheikh has died).
- amyjess 9y agoShah maat, actually, and it came from Farsi/Persian, not Arabic. Shah is Farsi for king. Edit: The word chess itself also derives from shah. According to Wiktionary [0], it comes from Old French eschés, the plural of eschec, which comes from Vulgar Latin (scaccus* being the unattested reconstruction), which comes from Arabic shah, which finally comes from Farsi shah. [0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chess https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chess
- subliminalpanda 9y agoI see thanks for the clarification.
- khedoros1 9y agoThat makes it clearer where the German "Schach" probably came from. I wondered about it when I learned that word.