Noun: handiwork
| Singular | handiwork |
| Plural | handiworks |
Sample Sentences
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The Museum of Popular Arts showcases Portugal's finest handiworks.
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The street names are the handiwork of city planners.
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The firmament showeth his handiwork. [1901, Bible (American Standard) - Psalms 19:1]
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Brunel's associations with the area have left a few examples of his handiwork or teaching in South Wales. [1939 September, D. S. Barrie, “The Railways of South Wales”, in Railway Magazine, page 163:]
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As a primary architect of the draft Constitution that emerged from Philadelphia in 1787, Madison substantially bore the burden of defending his handiwork in his home state. [2004 Fall, Laurence Claus, “The Antidiscrimination Eighth Amendment”, in Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, volume 28, number 1, pages 119–168:]
Nouns inflected like handiwork
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Germanic *handuz
3. Proto-West Germanic *handu
4. Old English hand
5. Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
6. Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
7. Proto-Germanic *ga-
8. Proto-West Germanic *ga-
9. Old English ġe-
10. Proto-Indo-European *werǵ-
11. Proto-Indo-European *-om
12. Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom
13. Proto-Germanic *werką
14. Proto-West Germanic *werk
15. Old English weorc
16. Old English ġeweorc
17. Old English handġeweorc
18. Middle English hondywerk
19. English handiwork
20. From Middle English hondywerk, handiwerc, from Old English handġeweorc (“work done by hand, creation”), from hand (“hand”) + ġeweorc (“work”). Equivalent to hand + work, though it may now be reinterpreted as handy (“skilful”) + work. Compare Saterland Frisian Hondwierk, Dutch handwerk, German Handwerk. See: Middle English Nouns '
hondywerk', Old English Nouns '
handġeweorc', Dutch Nouns '
handwerk', German Nouns '
Handwerk'.