Word Origin Summary

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

Ancestry Chain

1. 𐏋Old Persianinherited from
2. *kšáyatiProto-Indo-Iranianderived from
3. *tek-Proto-Indo-Europeanderived from
4. *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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