English
stickfighting
From stick + fighting.
Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- ‘to be sharp’
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Proto-Germanic *stikkô ‘pole’
Proto-West Germanic *stikkō ‘stick’
Old English sticca ‘stick’
Middle English sticke ‘branch’
English stick
Today it means
noun Fighting with a staff or baton, as in certain martial arts.
Sources
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