Etymograph

English

taskwork

Taskwork comes from Middle English taskewark.

  1. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500taskewark1
  2. Englishtodaytaskwork1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English taskwork

Lineage

  1. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500taskewarkWiktionary, English taskwork
  2. EnglishtodaytaskworkWiktionary, English taskwork

A compound of task + work

Latin taxō ‘to censure; to charge’

Latin taxa

Medieval Latin tasca

Old Northern French tasque

Middle English taske ‘task, tax’

English task

Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- ‘to make’

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Proto-Germanic *werką

Proto-West Germanic *werk

Old English weorc ‘labor’

Middle English work

English work

Every English word from Middle English taskewark

Today it means

noun Work that is done as a task.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “taskwork”. 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.

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