Etymograph

English

ticket

Ticket comes from Middle Scots tikkat, from Middle French etiquet, estiquette ‘a bill, note, label’, from Old French estechier ‘to attach, stick’.

  1. Old Frenchc. 842–1400estechier‘to attach’
  2. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600etiquet
  3. Middle Scotsmoderntikkat
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1633ticket

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Lineage

  1. Old Frenchc. 842–1400estechier‘to attach’
  2. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600etiquet
  3. Middle Scotsmoderntikkat
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1633ticket

Earliest quotation: 1633, Shackerley Marmion: “Your courtier is mad to take up silks and…”

Every English word from Old French estechier

Today it means

noun A pass entitling the holder to admission to a show, concert, sporting event, etc.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Old French estechier / ticket

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