英和和英

別の表記

• handmaiden
• handmayd (obsolete)

語源

Inherited from 中期英語 handemayde, hand-maide, handmaide, handmayd, hand mayde, hand-mayde, haundmaid, hondemayde, hondmaide, hond-mayde. By surface analysis, compound of hand +‎ maid, the first component in the sense of "ready at hand".

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈhændˌmeɪd/
• 韻: -ændmeɪd
• Homophone: handmade

名詞

handmaid (plural handmaids)

1. (now historical) A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 2:18:

     And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:

2. A moth of the species Dysauxes ancilla.

参考

• wait on someone hand and foot

アナグラム

• Hamdanid