weorcmann

Old English

Etymology

From weorc +‎ mann.

Noun

weorcmann m

1. workman, labourer

Declension

Strong consonant stem:

	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; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “weorcmann”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.