mate

mate
\ \ [14] Matefriend’ and mate the chess term are two distinct words. The former was borrowed from Middle Low German mate or gematecompanion’ (source also of Dutch maat), which goes back to a prehistoric West Germanic *gamaton. This was formed from the collective prefix *ga- and *mat- ‘measure’, which was also the source of English meat; so etymologically mate (like companion) is ‘someone you eat with or share your food with’.
\ \ The chess term mate comes from Old French matdead’. This was short for eschec mat (source of English checkmate), which comes from Persian shāh mātthe king is dead’. Persian mātdead’ also contributed the verb matarkill’ to Spanish, from which was derived matador [17], literally ‘killer’.
\ \ Cf.MEAT; MAT, MATADOR, MATTE

Word origins - 2ed. . 2005.

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