Etymology

methinketh

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Today it means: methinks Full definition →

Middle English me thinketh ← Old English mē
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The story

  1. Old English · inherited frommē
  2. Middle English · inherited fromme thinketh
  3. English todaymethinketh

From Middle English me thinketh, from Old English mē þynceþ; equivalent to me + thinketh, where me is the object pronoun.

Words from the same roots

Middle Englishme thinketh all →

methinks

Old Englishmē all →

myselfmeemethinks

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.