TY - JOUR
TI - Le fou est-il vraiment fou? Les noms des figures d’échecs dans les langues romanes
AU - Dębowiak, Przemysław
TI - Le fou est-il vraiment fou? Les noms des figures d’échecs dans les langues romanes
AB - 
	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.
VL - 2013
IS - Volume 18, Issue 1
PY - 2023
SN - 1427-8219
C1 - 2084-3836
SP - 41
EP - 49
DO - 10.4467/20843836SE.13.002.0939
UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/studia-etymologica-cracoviensia/artykul/le-fou-est-il-vraiment-fou-les-noms-des-figures-dechecs-dans-les-langues-romanes
KW - etymology
KW - Romance languages
KW - chess
KW - chessmen
KW - borrowing