Editing Shinty (section)

==Origins==
[[Hurling]], an Irish pastime for at least 2,000 years similar to shinty, is derived from the historic game common to both peoples. Shinty/hurling appears prominently in the legend of [[Cúchulainn]], the [[Celtic mythology]] hero.<ref name="uscamanachd.org">Hugh Dan MacLennan [http://www.uscamanachd.org/documents/MacLennan_Shintysplace.pdf SHINTY'S PLACE AND SPACE IN WORLD] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060711191131/http://www.uscamanachd.org/documents/MacLennan_Shintysplace.pdf |date=11 July 2006 }} The Sports Historian, No. 18, 1 (May 1998), pp. 1-23.</ref> A similar game is played on the [[Isle of Man]] known as [[cammag]], a name cognate with camanachd. The old form of hurling played in the northern half of Ireland, called "commons", resembled shinty more closely than the standardised form of hurling of today. Like shinty, it was commonly known as {{lang|gv|camánacht}} and was traditionally played in winter.{{citation needed|date=December 2015}} It is still played regularly on [[Saint Stephen's Day]] in [[St John's, Isle of Man|St John's]].

The origins of the name ''shinty'' are uncertain. There is a theory that the name was derived from the cries used in the game; "shin ye", "shin you" and "shin t'ye", other dialect names were ''shinnins'', ''shinnack'', ''shinnup'',<ref>Shindy: The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. p.820</ref> ''chinnup'',<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bFQJAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA40 |first=Edward |last=Peacock |title=A Glossary of Words Used in the Wapentakes of Manley and Corringham, Lincolnshire |publisher=[[English Dialect Society]] |year=1877 |page=40}}</ref> or as [[Hugh Dan MacLennan]] proposes from the [[Scottish Gaelic]] {{lang|gd|sìnteag}}.<ref name="uscamanachd.org"/> However, there was never one all-encompassing name for the game, as it held different names from glen to glen, including {{lang|gd|cluich-bhall}} ('play-ball' in [[English language|English]]) and in the [[Scottish Lowlands]], where it was formerly referred to as ''[[hailes (ball game)|hailes]]'', ''common''/''cammon'' (''caman''), ''cammock'' (from Scottish Gaelic {{lang|gd|camag}}), ''[[knotty]]'', carrick<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/carrick|title=Dictionary of the Scots Language:: SND :: carrick}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NcFBAAAAQBAJ&q=carrick+fife+shinty&pg=PA84|title=Scots and its Literature|first=J. Derrick|last=McClure|date=1 January 1996|publisher=John Benjamins Publishing|isbn=9789027276056|via=Google Books}}</ref> and various other names, as well as the terms still used to refer to it in modern Gaelic, {{lang|gd|camanachd}} or {{lang|gd|iomain}}.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Shinty {{!}} sport {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/sports/shinty |access-date=2023-02-02 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=A View of Edinburgh with a game of shinty |url=https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/108825 |access-date=2023-02-02 |website=National Galleries of Scotland |language=en}}</ref> Shinty was once a popular game in lowland Scotland, as shown by its name ''shintie'', a term which took that form around 1700, displacing the earlier ''shinnie'' – of which there is a written record about 100 years earlier.  ''Shinnie'' may also derive from ''shin'' in English, with the affix ''-ie'', a common termination to the name of many games in Scotland.<ref>{{Cite journal|date=April 1963|title=An Gaidheal The Gael|url=https://digital.nls.uk/an-comunn-gaidhealach/archive/124893764#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=65&xywh=0%2C-172%2C4739%2C3513|journal=An Gaidheal|volume=LVIII / 58|pages=43}}</ref>