Consider the premise. Does the hypothesis naturally and logically follow? Premise: As for stalemate , which is related to checkmate , would it not have been important to indicate that the - mate part has nothing to do with English, having been borrowed from checkmate which is a loanword from Persian (and has nothing to do with check , either). Hypothesis: Stalemate is related to checkmate, and the mate part of the word is actually derived from a loanword from Persian.
As for stalemate , which is related to checkmate , would it not have been important to indicate that the - mate part has nothing to do with English, having been borrowed from checkmate which is a loanword from Persian (and has nothing to do with check , either).###Stalemate is related to checkmate, and the mate part of the word is actually derived from a loanword from Persian.