All these words stem from the hugely old Proto-Indo-European root werg-, meaning to do, from which also derive our English word "work" but also words like allergy, boulevard, lethargy, liturgy, metallurgy, surgeon and even organ (that with which one works) and thus organism and related terms.Ī second (equally ancient) verb of the form εργω ( ergo) means to shut in, up or out to enclose. This ur-verb εργω ( ergo), meaning to labor in the wild, was already obsolete at the beginning of recorded Greek history, but it related to the verb ερδω ( erdo), which was also an ancient verb that meant a more general to do to undertake any action for whatever reason (which in the New Testament is mostly described with the verb ποιεω, poieo). The difference is that the original verb describes a doing that occurs in an uncultivated landscape (Genesis 3:17-19), whereas the younger verb describes the performance of a process that arose from an already established larger economy. It's the parent noun of the verb εργαζομαι ( ergazomai), meaning to perform a job or task (see below), but is itself a derivation of the verb εργω ( ergo), meaning to labor. ![]() The important noun εργον ( ergon) means work in the sense of job or task (hence ultimately our English word "energy" see below).
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