Where does “drudgery” come from?

Drudgery comes from Middle English druggen, from Anglo-Norman -erie, from Latin -arius, from Proto-Indo-European -yós, ultimately denoting habitual or servile labor.

drudgery (English): Exhausting, menial, and tedious work

Definitions

  1. Exhausting, menial, and tedious work

Ancestry of “drudgery”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishdrudgeA person who works in a low servile job; Someone...
2Middle EnglishdruggenTo drudge; to perform menial labour
3Old English*dryċġan—

Words derived from “drudgery”

Every word from Old English *dryċġan →Every word from Middle English druggen →Every word from English drudge →
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