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Where does “steelwork” come from?

steelwork (English) comes from English steel, from English -ville, from French ville, from Middle French ville, from Old French ville, from Latin vīlla, from Latin vetera, from Latin vetus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

steelwork (English): All the steel components of a structure

Definitions

  1. All the steel components of a structure

Ancestry of “steelwork”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishsteelAn artificial metal produced from iron, harder...
2English-villeUsed to form a name of an inhabited place, a town...
3Frenchvilletown, city
4Middle Frenchvillecity or town
5Old Frenchvillecity or town
6Latinvīlla—
7Latinveterathe old; old times, ancient times, antiquity
8Latinvetusold, aged, elderly, ancient; long-standing;...
9Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
10Proto-Italic-tus—
11Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →