NODE / 0197attestedAnglo-French
eschec
a king in check; the warning in chess
- DATE
- Anglo-French period
- SENSE
- chess check warning
- FAMILY
- Indo-European / Romance
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:12:eschec:attested:sense:chess-check-warning
The singular chess warning enters Middle English.
01ANCESTRAL EDGES
ROOT OF THIS ROOT
02DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES
THE NEXT HISTORICAL STEP
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
- 5
- REVIEWED EDGES
- 5
- DEEPEST PATH
- 3
- MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
- 2
HISTORICAL STEP 012 EDGES
STEP 01borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- Anglo-French eschec loses its initial unstressed vowel as it enters Middle English chek.
- MEANING
- The chess warning expands toward assault, obstruction, and adverse event.
STEP 01compound memberestablished
- SOUND
- Anglo-French eschec mat retains eschec as its first member before English reduction to check.
- MEANING
- The threatened king or check supplies the first half of the terminal chess announcement.
HISTORICAL STEP 022 EDGES
STEP 02semantic 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.
STEP 02borrowing and derivationestablished
- SOUND
- Anglo-French eschec mat is borrowed as Middle English chek mat and supplies the derived verb chekmaten.
- MEANING
- The announcement that a king cannot escape becomes both a chess result and complete frustration.
HISTORICAL STEP 031 EDGE
STEP 03historical continuationestablished
- SOUND
- Middle English chekmaten / chekmat stabilizes as modern checkmate.
- MEANING
- Chess defeat and complete frustration continue together into modern English.
“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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