Word Origin Summary

𐏋 is attested in Old Persian. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. *kšáyatiProto-Indo-Iranianderived from
2. *tek-Proto-Indo-Europeanderived from
3. *xšáyatiProto-Indo-Iranianderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• cheque

  Portuguese · derived from

• schaak

  Dutch · derived from

• chek

  Middle English · derived from

• sjah

  Norwegian Nynorsk · derived from

• scheckig

  German · derived from

• šach

  Slovak · derived from

• নওশা

  Bengali · derived from

• τσεκάρω

  Greek · borrowed from

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