Encyclopaedia Iranica groups Old French eschés with descendants of Arabic al-šaṭranj; the exact phonological mediation conflicts with the reviewed šāh account.
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eschés
chess pieces; chess
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PARENT / EARLIER FORM / attestedClassical Arabic · early Islamic Arabic · chess gameal-šaṭranj
chess
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The traveling name of the game supplies a competing source for the French game name.
Arabic chess vocabulary to medieval French.
Bo Utas and Encyclopaedia Iranica contributors
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ChessHeadword summary and History of Chess in Persia
supportsAUDIT SOURCE ↗ORIGINAL ↗Documents the caturaṅga, čatrang, šatranj, Arabic, and European game-name route.
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