Worker
/ˈwɜːrkər/noun
A person who performs work, especially for pay.
Did you know?*Worker* comes from Old English *weorc*, and its deeper Indo-European root also gave us words tied to making, crafting, and action—language originally treated labor as something actively forged into reality.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*werg-
“to do, make, work”
Old English
OE
weorc
“work, deed, action, something accomplished”
Old English
OE
wyrcan
“to work, make, do”
Middle English
ME
worker
“one who works or does labor”
Modern English
English
worker
“a person who works, especially for wages”