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prettygoodwordcamogie - n., an Irish team sport played with sticks and a ball that is a form of hurling played by women.
That is to say, when the sport is played by men it's called hurling and when it's played by women it's camogie -- to the order of small variants in the rules, anyway, such as a slightly smaller stick for hitting the ball. The name differences come from the late 19th century, when the men's league decided to use an English name while the women players just anglicized the Gaelic name. Specifically, from Irish Gaelic camógaíocht, sport played with a camóg (the camogie stick), which is a diminutive of camán (the hurling stick), lit. crooked stick. Stress in English on the second syllable.
Field hockey!
---L.
That is to say, when the sport is played by men it's called hurling and when it's played by women it's camogie -- to the order of small variants in the rules, anyway, such as a slightly smaller stick for hitting the ball. The name differences come from the late 19th century, when the men's league decided to use an English name while the women players just anglicized the Gaelic name. Specifically, from Irish Gaelic camógaíocht, sport played with a camóg (the camogie stick), which is a diminutive of camán (the hurling stick), lit. crooked stick. Stress in English on the second syllable.
Field hockey!
---L.
