weorcmann

Old English

Etymology

From weorc +‎ mann.

Noun

weorcmann m

workman, labourer

Declension

Declension of weorcmann (strong consonant stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	weorcmann	weorcmenn
accusative	weorcmann	weorcmenn
genitive	weorcmannes	weorcmanna
dative	weorcmenn	weorcmannum

Descendants

Middle English: werkman
- English: workman
- Scots: warkman, werkman

References

Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “weorcmann”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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