Of chariots, chess, and Chinese borrowings

Having gotten a good earful of Latin last month, Chau Wu was prompted to write this note in response to our previous post on "From Chariot to Carriage" (5/5/24): “chē 車 ("car; cart; vehicle") / yín 銀 ("silver")” In my view, these two words are among those most representative of cultural and linguistic transfers from […]