"wellicht" meaning in All languages combined

See wellicht on Wiktionary

Adverb [Dutch]

Audio: Nl-wellicht.ogg
Etymology: Perhaps from Middle Low German villicht, villîcht (modern German Low German villicht). Cognate with German vielleicht. Etymology templates: {{bor|nl|gml|villicht}} Middle Low German villicht, {{m|gml|villîcht}} villîcht, {{cog|nds-de|villicht}} German Low German villicht, {{cog|de|vielleicht}} German vielleicht Head templates: {{nl-adv}} wellicht
  1. (sentence-initial) possibly, perhaps
    Sense id: en-wellicht-nl-adv-ToPUaSee
  2. probably, likely Synonyms (sentence-initial): misschien
    Sense id: en-wellicht-nl-adv-MB~N2ISL Categories (other): Dutch entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Dutch entries with incorrect language header: 2 98 Disambiguation of 'sentence-initial': 33 67
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: waarschijnlijk

Download JSON data for wellicht meaning in All languages combined (1.9kB)

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