Where does “workaround” come from?
Workaround comes from English work and around, with work tracing through Middle English werk and the prefix a- (from Middle French a- and Latin ad-, meaning "to" or "toward") back to Proto-Indo-European ád.
workaround (English): A means of overcoming some obstacle, especially...
Definitions
- A means of overcoming some obstacle, especially...
Ancestry of “workaround”, step by step
workaround traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English around
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | around | Defining a circle or closed curve containing a... |
| 2 | Middle English | arounde | about the margin, along the periphery |
| 3 | Middle English | round | circle, round |
| 4 | Old French | reont | round |
| 5 | Latin | retundus | round |
| 6 | Latin | rotundus | round, circular; spherical, rotund; rounded,... |
| 7 | Latin | rotō | to turn, trend, wheel, roll, swing about, whirl, rotate; brandish |
| 8 | Latin | Rota | an ecclesiastical appellate court in the Catholic... |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | rotā | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | Hróth₂-eh₂ | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | Hreth₂- | to run |