your servant

English

Etymology 1

Seemingly from I am your servant.

Noun

your servant (plural your servants)

(archaic) Used as a greeting, especially to a lady.
(archaic) Used as a closing of a personal letter.

Quotations

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Translations

archaic: greeting

Finnish: palveluksessanne
Hungarian: kezét csókolom (hu), (dated) alázatos szolgája, alászolgája (hu)

archaic: closing

Finnish: Teidän (fi)

Etymology 2

Calque of Biblical Hebrew עַבְדְּךָ (ʿaḇdəḵā) and עַבְדְּכֶם (ʿaḇdəḵem)

Pronoun

your servant

(humble, archaic, chiefly in Bible translations) I, me

See also

thy servant

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