English
housewright
From house + wright (“builder”).
A compound of house + wright ‘builder’
Proto-Germanic *hūsą
Proto-West Germanic *hūs
Old English hūs ‘dwelling’
Middle English hous ‘house’
English house
Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- ‘to make’
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Proto-West Germanic *wurhti ‘deed, act’
Proto-West Germanic *wurhtijō ‘worker, workman’
Old English wyrhta ‘worker, maker’
Middle English wrighte
English wright
Today it means
noun A person who builds and repairs houses, especially wooden houses. Particularly, in eighteenth-century colonial America, a craftsman who cut timber (like a lumberjack) in the quantity required for the construction of a house, then sawed it into planks, and finally jointed and assembled them (like a carpenter).
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / housewright