Le fou est-il vraiment fou? Les noms des figures d’échecs dans les langues romanes

• Authors: Przemysław Dębowiak

Title variants

EN

Is French fou ‘bishop’ really fou ‘demented’? Chessmen’s names in Romance languages.

• Languages of publication: FR

Abstracts

EN

The purpose of the paper is to present and explain the etymology of some chess terms (‘chess’, ‘checkmate’) and the chessmen’s names (‘king’, ‘queen’, ‘bishop’, ‘knight’, ‘rook’ and ‘pawn’) in seven Romance languages. Numerous words referring to chess in Portuguese, Galician, Spanish, Catalan, French, Italian and Romanian are analysed and compared so as to show their common history and some interesting linguistic facts that occurred during their formation.

Keywords

EN

etymology; Romance languages; chess; chessmen; borrowing

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 18
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 41-49

Dates

online

2013-05-15

Contributors

author

Przemysław Dębowiak

Identifiers

DOI

10.4467/20843836SE.13.002.0939