köken: Using an archaic apocopic form of the possessive. While optional in this case, the same is more or less obligatory in some other titles like Euer Gnaden (“your Grace”), Euer Ehren (“your Honor”).
down a noble's residential tower, looking up · Your Excellency; His Excellency; Her Excellency; Your Lordship; His Lordship; Your Ladyship; Her Ladyship; Your Grace; His Grace; Her Grace
köken: Uncertain, though clearly related to rēx (“king”), itself from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to rule”). It may derive from an adjective *reg-īno- (“regal, meant for the king”). Sihler instead connects the term with *h₃rḗǵnih₂, which—according to Sihler—perhaps yielded Proto-Italic *rēgnī-, which itself was perhaps remodeled into *rēgnīā according to the model of terms such as avia. Sihler further…