The story
- Old French · derived fromsurmis
- English todaysurmise
From Old French surmis, past participle of surmetre, surmettre (“to accuse”), from sur- (“upon”) + metre (“to put”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
surmise
sur·miseToday it means: Thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess. Full definition →
Old French surmis