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Przemysław Dębowiak
Le fou est-il vraiment fou ? Les noms des figures d’échecs dans les langues romanes
SEC 18 (2013), 41–49

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

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.


BibTeX

@article{Debowiak13,
author = {Dębowiak, Przemysław},
title = {Le fou est-il vraiment fou ? Les noms des figures d’échecs dans les langues romanes},
journal = {Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia},
volume = {18},
year = {2013},
pages = {41–49}
}