Iconoclast@feddit.uk to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 month agoWhat's an interesting etymology for a common term?message-squaremessage-square214linkfedilinkarrow-up1229arrow-down11
arrow-up1228arrow-down1message-squareWhat's an interesting etymology for a common term?Iconoclast@feddit.uk to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 month agomessage-square214linkfedilink
minus-squareScrollone@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 month ago“Scacco matto” in Italian, which doesn’t mean anything (fool check?), but it’s surely sounds like checkmate.
minus-squaretomiant@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-21 month ago100% from Persian “check mate”/“shāh māt”/شاه مات (“The king is dead/helpless”)
“Scacco matto” in Italian, which doesn’t mean anything (fool check?), but it’s surely sounds like checkmate.
100% from Persian “check mate”/“shāh māt”/شاه مات
(“The king is dead/helpless”)