English
spiderwork
From spider + -work.
Formed from spider + -work
Proto-Indo-European *(s)pénh₁-ne-
Proto-Germanic *spinnaną ‘to spin’
Proto-West Germanic *spinþrijō
Old English spīþra
Middle English spithre ‘a spider’
English spider
Today it means
noun Lace worked by spider stitch.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “spiderwork”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / spiderwork