Etymology

hardworking

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Today it means: Of a person, taking their work seriously and doing it well and rapidly. Full definition →

English working ← Middle English hard ← Old English heard
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*kret-der.?
  2. Proto-Germanic*harduz
  3. Proto-West Germanic*hard(ī)
  4. Old Englishheard
  5. Middle Englishhard
  6. Englishhard
  7. Englishworking
  8. English todayhardworking

From hard + working.

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