Etymograph

English

hard yakka

Hard yakka comes from Yagara yaga ‘work’.

  1. Yagaramodernyaga‘work’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1988hard yakka

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Yagaramodernyaga‘work’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1988hard yakka

Earliest quotation: 1988, Tom Cole, Hell West and Crooked: “The men who did all the hard yakka believed…”

A compound of hard + yakka

Proto-Germanic *harduz

Proto-West Germanic *hard(ī)

Old English heard ‘hard’

Middle English hard

English hard

Yagara yaga ‘work’

English yakka

Every English word from Yagara yaga

Today it means

noun Hard work.

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

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