 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" and "shinnup", or as Hugh Dan MacLennan proposes from the Scottish Gaelic "sìnteag".However, there was never one all encompassing name for the game, as it held different names from glen to glen, including cluich-bhall ("play-ball" in English) and in the Scottish Lowlands, where it was formerly referred to as "Hailes", "common"/"cammon" ("caman"), "cammock" (from Scottish Gaelic "camag"), "knotty", carrick and various other names, as well as the terms still used to refer to it in modern Gaelic, "camanachd" or "iomain".