ticket

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European*stegʰ-
2. Proto-Indo-European*stogʰō?
3. Proto-Germanic*stakô
4. Old Frenchestache
5. Old Frenchestachier
6. Middle Frenchestacher
7. Middle Frenchestiquier
8. Middle Frenchestiquette f
9. Middle Scotstikkat
10. English todayticket

Borrowed from Middle Scots tikkat, tikket, from Middle French etiquet m, estiquet m, and etiquette f, estiquette f (“a bill, note, label, ticket”), from Old French estechier, estichier, estequier (“to attach, stick”), (compare Picard estiquier (“to stick, pierce”)), from Frankish *stikkjan, *stekan (“to stick, pierce, sting”), from Proto-Germanic *stikaną, *stikōną, *staikijaną (“to be sharp, pierce, prick”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to be sharp, to stab”). Doublet of etiquette. More at stick.

Words from the same roots