Where does “ticket” come from?
Ticket derives from Proto-Germanic stikaną and Proto-Indo-European stig-, though the specific semantic development from the reconstructed roots to the modern word remains uncertain.
ticket (English): A pass entitling the holder to admission to a...
Definitions
- A pass entitling the holder to admission to a...
Ancestry of “ticket”, step by step
ticket traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Middle French estiquet
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | estiquet | a slip of paper with names of witnesses on it |
| 2 | Middle French | estiquier | Alternative form of estacher |
| 3 | Middle French | estacher | to attach |
| 4 | Old French | estachier | Alternative form of atachier; bind; to fasten... |
| 5 | Old French | estache | stake; strap |
| 6 | Medieval Latin | staca | a stake |
| 7 | Gothic | 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌺𐌰 | — |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | stakô | stake |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | (s)teg- | to cover; pole, stick, beam |