*SET-U

PERMANENT JOURNEY RECORD / 137

COMPLETE ROUTE ↗
STAGE 03broadNO SINGLE PIN

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

France and England

checkmate DOSSIER ↗
THE REVIEWED ROUTE CLAIM

Anglo-French eschec mat reaches Middle English chekmat and the derived verb chekmaten; 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; it does not date every French or English occurrence.

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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    Checkmate — Word History

    Traces Anglo-French eschec mat into Middle English chekmat and chekmaten and reports the verb in the fourteenth century and noun in the fifteenth.

    Word History: Etymology and First Known UseAUDIT SOURCE ↗