ABSTRACT
I. 'To check', orig at chess, results naturally from the chess tenn checJc, an interj, warning one's opponent that he is in a dangerous position, whence flow all the other 'hindrance' senses, incl that of the banking cheque (F influence), AE check: and a check, ME chek, is aphetic for OF·MF eschec, var of eschoc which comes, via Ar, from Per sMh, king-whence obviously the title SMh, B Shah-akin to Skt k¢yati, he possesses, controls, rules, and klatrd, power, rule; cf also Or ktdomai, I acquire, ktima, anything acquired, a possession; IE r, ·khe· or ·khe(·, varr ·kha-, ·khaJ-, to acquire.
