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CHILD / LATER FORM / attestedPresent-Day English · 14th century–today · board game

chess

the two-player strategy board game

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PARENT / EARLIER FORM / attestedMiddle English · 14th–15th centuries · board game

chesse / ches / esches

the game of chess

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SOUND CHANGE

Middle English chesse / ches stabilizes as modern chess with final spelling simplification.

SEMANTIC CHANGE

The board-game meaning remains stable.

CHRONOLOGY

Fourteenth century to modern English.

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Chess — Word HistoryEtymology; First Known Use

Records Middle English forms and fourteenth-century chronology.

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RELATION / 189chess

chess → chesse / ches / esches

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