escaque

Etymology
or a corresponding Romance word, e.g. 🇨🇬 and, from or ; see related. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Alternatively, Coromines & Pascual suspect it may instead descend from ultimately a Germanic borrowing, as in 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬, cognate with Gallic/Lombardic 🇨🇬 and a northern Italo-Romance scac ("loot; robbery"), cf. 🇨🇬, an ancient game similar to chess. This would better explain the development of the initial consonants, although the word would still be contaminated by the Arabic word reflected in jaque.

Noun

 * 1) a tile of a board to play chess or checkers
 * 2)  chess