Cricket: which came first, the bug or the game?

Question

Trivia, another meaning for trivial information. Sometimes I regret the questions I ask, but what the heck! Maybe someone knows the answer to my question that google doesn't. So in England did they decide to call the game Cricket after the insect? I don't see how a bug could be named after a game. What's the story? Anyone know?

Answer 1

the bug

Answer 2

you look like me, and the cricket

Answer 3

Well the bug was first but the sport cricket is actually named after croquet or so I have been told.

Answer 4

Take ya dumb questions to another section. if ya must try and fit in here ask sumthin sensible

Answer 5

The bug was definitely found first.  For some reason people in England thought that a good name for their new game would be "Cricket."

Answer 6

Sorry, it's an interesting question, but the two words are completely unrelated.

The bug's name origins:

[Origin: 1275–1325; ME criket insect < OF criquet, equiv. to criqu(er) to creak (imit.) + -et -et]

The game's name:

[Origin: 1590–1600; < MF criquet goal post, perh. < early D krick(e) arm, crosspiece, gallows]

So the game's name is related to the game of croquet, but not to the bug's name. Sorry.

Answer 7

A basic form of the sport can be traced back to the 13th century, but it may have existed even earlier than that. The game seems to have originated among shepherds and farm workers in the Weald between Kent and Sussex. Written evidence exists of a sport known as creag being played by Prince Edward, the son of Edward I (Longshanks), at Newenden, Kent in 1300.

In 1598, a court case referred to a sport called Creckett being played at the Royal Grammar School, Guildford around 1550. The Oxford English Dictionary gives this as the first recorded instance of cricket in the English language.

A number of words are thought to be possible sources for the term cricket. The name may derive from a term for the cricket bat: old French criquet (meaning a kind of club) or Flemish krick(e) (meaning a stick) or in Old English crycc (meaning a crutch or staff). (The latter is problematic, since Old English 'cc' was palatal in pronunciation in the south and the west midlands, roughly ch, which is how crycc leads to crych and thence crutch; the 'k' sound would be possible in the north, however.) Alternatively, the French criquet apparently derives from the Flemish word krickstoel, which is a long low stool on which one kneels in church and which resembles the long low wicket with two stumps used in early cricket.

During the 17th century, numerous references indicate the growth of cricket in the south-east of England. By the end of the century, it had become an organised activity being played for high stakes and it is possible that the first professionals appeared about that time. We know that a great cricket match with eleven players a side was played for high stakes in Sussex in 1697 and this is the earliest reference we have to cricket in terms of such importance.

The game underwent major development in the 18th Century and had become the national sport of England by the end of the century.

Answer 8

the bug  

Answer 9

well bugs are pests right? so cricket is a pest as it is so boring. hahahhahah

Answer 10

The words come from different roots, but basically they are both the noise they make: crickets definitely say "cricket", ball on bat makes a little crick.  The insect has been called a cricket long before the rain-making dance was invented.

Answer 11

the bug came first but loved the game like a crazy follower and was always found in cricket fields ~ so this game was dedicated to the bug ~

hope it helps!

god bless!

good Q!

Answer 12

Maybe Cricket the insect is

But now a person called Dr. Abraham Terian is claiming that in a manuscript of Armenian gospel says Jesus played a form of cricket. Wait .... I will insert a link to the page here for all to read

http://content-ind.cricinfo.com/magazine...

(check out in the centre of the page under the head "Jesus, you played cricket?") or

http://www.theage.com.au/world/messiah-c...

Now for the real part

cricket-  "insect," c.1325, from Old french criquet, from criquer "to creak, rattle, crackle," of echoic origin.

    "game," 1598, apparently from Old French - criquet "goal post, stick," perhaps from Medievel Dutch/Medieval Flemish. cricke "stick, staff." Sense of "fair play" is first recorded 1851, on notion of "cricket as it should be played."

and read these:- http://www.cricket.mailliw.com/archives/...

http://podictionary.com/?p=794

Answer 13

Oh the grasshopper type insect   came first.