Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA domestic; a servant or retainer.
From Middle English hewe, from Old English hīwa (“member of a family”), from Proto-Germanic *hīwô (“relative, fellow-lodger, family”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- (“to lie with, store, be familiar”). More at hind.
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