Where does “millworks” come from?

millworks (English) comes from English Mill, from English million, from Middle English milioun, from Middle French million, from Old French millon, from Italian milione, from Italian mille, from Latin Mīlle.

millworks (English): The machinery and mechanisms of a mill

Definitions

  1. The machinery and mechanisms of a mill

Ancestry of “millworks”, step by step

millworks traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English Mill

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishMillJohn Stuart Mill, English libertarian and utilitarian philosopher
2EnglishmillionThe cardinal number 1,000,000: 10; a thousand...
3Middle EnglishmiliounThe cardinal number 1 000 000: 106; a thousand thousand
4Middle Frenchmillionmillion, 10
5Old Frenchmillon
6Italianmilionemillion
7Italianmillethousand
8LatinMīllethousand; 1000
9Proto-Italicsmīɣeslīthousand
10Proto-Indo-Europeansmih₂ǵʰéslih₂

via English works

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishworksplural of work in its countable senses; API pl; A...
Every word from Proto-Indo-European smih₂ǵʰéslih₂