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Etymology TIL: all uses of the word "check" (check your work, check your coat, check items off a list, check please!) and even "cheque" originate by analogy to the chess situation, which originally gets its name from the Persian "shah" meaning "king". The chess term is from c. 1300 (although it originally referred to the game itself) and the first other use (stoppage or restraint) is from the 1510s.