Rook

Morpheme

Rook

Type

free base

Denotation

castle-shaped chess piece

Etymology

Middle English rook, rooke, roke, rok; Old French roc; Medieval Latin rocus, rochus; Arabic rukhkh; Persian rukh

Evidence

rook, rooks

Notes

confused with Middle English roc

See Also

Roc

Homographs

Rook

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