Etymology

treewright

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Today it means: A worker of wood, carpenter, joiner. Full definition →

Middle English *tre-wrighte ← Old English trēowwyrhta
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  1. Old English · inherited fromtrēowwyrhta“wood-worker, carpenter”
  2. Middle English · inherited from*tre-wrighte
  3. English todaytreewright

From Middle English *tre-wrighte, from Old English trēowwyrhta (“wood-worker, carpenter”), equivalent to tree + wright.

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