Word Origin Summary

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

Ancestry Chain

1. 𐏋Old Persianderived from
2. eschecOld Frenchderived from
3. 𐭬𐭫𐭪𐭠Middle Persianderived from
4. *kšáyatiProto-Indo-Iranianinherited from
5. *ksayatiProto-Indo-Iranianderived from
6. شَاهArabicderived from
7. scaccusMedieval Latinderived from
8. *tek-Proto-Indo-Europeaninherited from

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