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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈtʃɛkə/
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• General-American: /ˈt͡ʃɛkɚ/
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• rhymes with -ɛkə(ɹ)
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• CMU ARPABET: CH EH1 K ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree English check Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English checker From check + -er.

From Middle English cheker, aphetic from Anglo-Norman escheker (“chessboard”), from Latin scaccarium, thus ultimately morpheme-for-morpheme cognate to etymology 1.

Alteration of chequer.

22 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: проверител (proveritel) — One who checks or verifies something
• Esperanto: kontrolisto — One who checks or verifies something
• Finnish: tarkastaja — One who checks or verifies something
• French: vérificateur — One who checks or verifies something
• French: vérificatrice — One who checks or verifies something
• Galician: verificador — One who checks or verifies something
• Galician: verificadora — One who checks or verifies something
• German: Prüfer — One who checks or verifies something
• German: Prüferin — One who checks or verifies something
• Greek: ελεγκτής (elegktís) — One who checks or verifies something
• Russian: контролёр (kontroljór) — One who checks or verifies something
• Russian: учётчик (učótčik) — One who checks or verifies something
• Russian: билетёр (biletjór) — One who checks or verifies something
• Russian: че́кер (čéker) — One who checks or verifies something
• Spanish: verificador — One who checks or verifies something
• Spanish: verificadora — One who checks or verifies something
• Bulgarian: касиерка (kasierka) — The clerk who tallies cost of purchases and accepts payment
• Bulgarian: касиер (kasier) — The clerk who tallies cost of purchases and accepts payment
• Finnish: kassa — The clerk who tallies cost of purchases and accepts payment
• Greek: ταμίας (tamías) — The clerk who tallies cost of purchases and accepts payment
• Russian: касси́р (kassír) — The clerk who tallies cost of purchases and accepts payment
• Russian: касси́рша (kassírša) — The clerk who tallies cost of purchases and accepts payment