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- Middle English · inherited fromhandemayde
- English todayhandmaid
Inherited from Middle English 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".
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.