"A number of words are thought to be possible sources for the term "cricket". In the earliest known reference to the sport in 1598[26], it is called creckett. Given the strong medieval trade connections between south-east England and the County of Flanders when the latter belonged to the Duchy of Burgundy, the name may have been derived from the Middle Dutch[27] krick(-e), meaning a stick; or the Old English cricc or cryce meaning a crutch or staff.[28] In Old French, the word criquet seems to have meant a kind of club or stick.[29] In Samuel Johnson's Dictionary, he derived cricket from "cryce, Saxon, a stick".[30] Another possible source is the Middle Dutch word krickstoel, meaning a long low stool used for kneeling in church and which resembled the long low wicket with two stumps used in early cricket.[31] According to Heiner Gillmeister, a European language expert of Bonn University, "cricket" derives from the Middle Dutch phrase for hockey, met de (krik ket)sen (i.e., "with the stick chase").[32]"
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