NODE / 0196attestedMiddle English
chek / chekke
a chess warning; assault, adverse event, restraint
- DATE
- 14th–15th centuries
- SENSE
- chess warning restraint
- FAMILY
- Indo-European / West Germanic
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:2:chek-chekke:attested:sense:chess-warning-restraint
The chess sense is oldest; stop and block develop from the threatened king.
01ANCESTRAL EDGES
ROOT OF THIS ROOT
02DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES
THE NEXT HISTORICAL STEP
DESCENDANTsemantic continuationestablished
Present-Day English · 14th century–today · verify restrain draftcheck
verify, restrain, inspect, mark; a bank draft
- SOUND
- Middle English chek stabilizes as check; the core consonants remain while spelling standardizes.
- MEANING
- A chess attack produces stop and restraint, then verification, marks, tokens, and the anti-forgery counterfoil behind the bank sense.
- CHRONOLOGY
- Chess and restraint senses are medieval; banking and verification branches develop later.
- SCHOLAR
- Merriam-Webster Editors
- CONFIDENCE
- established — The semantic ordering is explicit in Merriam-Webster; several modern branches coexist rather than replacing one another.
03TRANSITIVE DESCENDANT CLOSURE
EVERY REVIEWED BRANCH FROM HERE
This is the complete downstream closure currently supported by the canonical graph. Every displayed step is a real reviewed edge with its own sound claim, meaning claim, scholar, confidence, and citations.
- UNIQUE DESCENDANT NODES
- 1
- REVIEWED EDGES
- 1
- DEEPEST PATH
- 1
- MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
- 1
HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE
STEP 01semantic continuationestablished
- SOUND
- Middle English chek stabilizes as check; the core consonants remain while spelling standardizes.
- MEANING
- A chess attack produces stop and restraint, then verification, marks, tokens, and the anti-forgery counterfoil behind the bank sense.
“Every” means every descendant in the reviewed SET-U graph. It does not convert missing scholarship or missing ingestion into a claim of historical completeness. The coverage ledger remains the honest denominator.
04RECORDED EVIDENCE
ATTESTATIONS / FIRST KNOWN USE
NO RECORDED WITNESS ATTACHED.The reviewed graph does not yet attach a source-reported or directly inspected witness to this canonical form.
05EDITORIAL REUSE
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