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handiwork (n.)
late 12c., from Old English
handgeweorc
, from
hand
(n.) +
geweorc
, collective form of
weorc
"work" (see
work
). Old English
ge-
regularly reduces to
i-
in Middle English, and the word probably came to be felt as
handy
+
work
.
