*SET-U

PERMANENT JOURNEY RECORD / 127

COMPLETE ROUTE ↗
STAGE 04broadNO SINGLE PIN

14th–15th c. English first-use horizons

Northern France and England

check DOSSIER ↗
THE REVIEWED ROUTE CLAIM

Anglo-French eschec and Old French eschac / eschés reach Middle English chek / chekke; the verb is reported in the fourteenth century and the noun in the fifteenth.

COORDINATES STORED
NO
HONEST TO PLOT
NO
PLACEMENT MODE
broad
TIME PRECISION
range
NUMERIC TIME BOUND
YES
CLAIM CITATIONS
1
THE TEMPORAL CLAIM

THIS STAGE ENTERS THE TIMELINE.

The interval conservatively combines the reviewed fourteenth-century verb and fifteenth-century noun first-use horizons instead of dating the full French transmission.

PLACE IN GLOBAL CHRONOLOGY ↗
DIRECT STAGE-LEVEL PROVENANCE

AUDIT THE ROUTE CLAIM.

Every source below identifies its exact stance, locator, and evidentiary contribution.

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    Check — Word History

    Traces Old and Anglo-French chess forms to Middle English chek / chekke and reports the verb in the fourteenth century and noun in the fifteenth.

    Word History: Etymology and First Known UseAUDIT SOURCE ↗