Editing Bandy (section)

===Etymology===
[[File:Stamps of Kazakhstan, 2014-043.jpg|right|thumb|upright=0.7|Kazakh [[Postage stamp|stamp]] featuring bandy ({{lang|kk|допты хоккей}} {{transliteration|kk|dopty khokkey}}, "ball hockey")]]
The sport's English name comes from the verb "to bandy", from the [[Middle French]] {{lang|frm|bander}} ("to strike back and forth"), and originally referred to a seventeenth-century Irish game similar to field hockey.{{citation needed|date=August 2022}} The curved stick was also called a "bandy".<ref name="etymo">{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=bandy&searchmode=none|title=Online Etymology Dictionary, "bandy"|year=2011|dictionary=Online Etymology Dictionary|access-date=4 January 2012}}</ref> The etymological connection to the similarly named Welsh hockey game of [[Bando (sport)|bando]] is not clear.

An old name for bandy is ''hockey on the ice''; in the first rule books from England at the turn of the century 1900, the sport is literally called "bandy or hockey on the ice".<ref>Arne Argus: "Bandy i 100 år", 2002, {{ISBN|91-631-3005-X}}, p. 36 (in Swedish)</ref> Since the early 20th century, the term bandy is usually preferred to prevent confusion with [[ice hockey]].

The sport is known as bandy in many languages, with a few exceptions. In Russia, bandy is called "Russian hockey" ({{lang|ru|русский хоккей}}) or more frequently, and officially, "hockey with a ball" ({{lang|ru|хоккей с мячом}}) while ice hockey is called "hockey with a puck" ({{lang|ru|хоккей с шайбой}}) or more frequently just "hockey". If the context makes it clear that bandy is the subject, it as well can be called just "hockey". In Belarusian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian it is also called "hockey with a ball" ({{lang|be|хакей з мячoм}}, {{lang|uk|хокей з м'ячем}} and {{lang|bg|хокей с топка}} respectively). In Slovak "bandy hockey" ({{lang|sk|bandyhokej}}) is the name. In Armenian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Mongol and Uzbek, bandy is known as "ball hockey" ({{lang|hy|գնդակով հոկեյ}}, {{lang|kk|допты хоккей}}, {{lang|ky|топтуу хоккей}}, {{lang|mn|бөмбөгтэй хоккей}} and {{lang|uz|koptokli xokkey}} respectively). In Finnish the two sports are distinguished as "ice ball" ({{lang|fi|jääpallo}}) and "ice puck" ({{lang|fi|jääkiekko}}), as well as in Hungarian ({{lang|hu|jéglabda; jégkorong}}), although in Hungarian it is more often called "bandy" nowadays. In Estonian and Lithuanian bandy is also called "ice ball" ({{lang|et|jääpall}}; {{lang|lt|ledo riedulys}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vle.lt/straipsnis/ledo-riedulys/|title=VISUOTINĖ LIETUVIŲ ENCIKLOPEDIJA|website=www.lietuviuzodynas.lt}}</ref>). In Mandarin Chinese it is "bandy ball" ({{lang|cmn|班迪球}}). In [[Scottish Gaelic]] the name is "ice shinty" ({{lang|gd|camanachd-deighe}}).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.faclair.com/?txtSearch=camanachd-deighe|title=Am Faclair Beag – Scottish Gaelic Dictionary|website=www.faclair.com}}</ref> In old times [[shinty]] or shinney were also sometimes used in English for bandy.<ref name="tebbutt"/>

Because of its similarities with association football, bandy is also nicknamed "winter football" ({{langx|sv|Vinterns fotboll}}).<ref name=Oxford/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ne.se/uppslagsverk/encyklopedi/l%C3%A5ng/bandy|title=Bandy|publisher=Nationalencyklopedin|language=English|access-date=28 July 2021}}</ref>