Etymograph

English

streetworker

From street + worker.

A compound of street + worker

Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- ‘to stretch out, extend, spread’

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Late Latin (via) strāta ‘paved (road)’

Proto-West Germanic *strātu ‘street’

Anglian Old English strēt ‘street’

Middle English strete ‘a road or path’

English street

Middle English worchere ‘one who works’

English worker

Today it means

noun A social worker who engages with people on the street.

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

Etymograph / streetworker