Etymology
1. 1528, "short note or document," from an aphetic form of M.Fr.
etiquet "label, note," from O.Fr.
estiquette "a little note" (1387), especially one affixed to a gate or wall as a public notice, from
estiquer "to affix, stick," from Frank.
*stikkan, cognate with O.E.
stician "to pierce" (see stick (v.)). Meaning "card or piece of paper that gives its holder a right or privilege" is first recorded 1673, probably developing from the sense of "certificate, license, permit." The political sense of "list of candidates put forward by a faction" has been used in Amer.Eng. since 1711. The verb is first recorded 1611. Meaning "official notification of offense" is from 1930;
parking ticket first attested 1947.
Big ticket item is from 1970. Slang
the ticket "just the thing, what is expected" is recorded from 1838, perhaps with notion of a winning lottery ticket.
2. Borrowed from Middle Scots tikkat, tikket, from Middle French etiquet m, estiquet m, and etiquette f, estiquette f (“a bill, note, label, ticket”), from Old French estechier, estichier, estequier (“to attach, stick”), (compare Picard estiquier (“to stick, pierce”)), from Frankish *stikkjan, *stekan (“to stick, pierce, sting”), from Proto-Germanic *stikaną, *stikōną, *staikijaną (“to be sharp, pierce, prick”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to be sharp, to stab”). Doublet of etiquette. More at stick. See: Proto-Germanic '
*stikaną'.
Verbs referencing "ticket"
Cebuano tiket.