English

farmwork

From farm + work.

A compound of farm + work

Medieval Latin ferma

Anglo-Norman ferme ‘rent, lease, farm’

Middle English ferme ‘rent, revenue’

English farm

Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- ‘to make’

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Proto-Germanic *werką

Proto-West Germanic *werk

Old English weorc ‘labor’

Middle English work

English work

Today it means

noun The agricultural work done on a farm.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / farmwork