Where does “ahedres” come from?
ahedres (Bikol Central) comes from Spanish ajedrez, from Old Spanish axedrez, from Arabic شطرنج, from Classical Persian چَتْرَنْگ, from Middle Persian ctlng, from Sanskrit चतुरङ्ग, from Sanskrit चतुर्, from Proto-Indo-Aryan ćatwā́ras — and.
ahedres (Bikol Central): chess
Ancestry of “ahedres”, step by step