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Where does the word "cricket" come from? It comes from Old French criquet, and was adopted directly into English (1590s).
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Where does the word "cricket" come from? It comes from Old French criquet, and was adopted directly into English (1590s).
Cricket’s story begins in Old French: criquet meant “a stick.” A stick, possibly related to a game played with a stick and ball. It reached English by 1590s as cricket. Settled as the English name for the bat-and-ball sport. Today, cricket means a bat-and-ball team sport, especially popular in Britain and its former colonies.
- Stage 1 · Old French · medieval criquet "a stick", a stick, possibly related to a game played with a stick and ball.
- Stage 2 · English · 1590s cricket "a bat-and-ball team sport", settled as the English name for the bat-and-ball sport.