"mightsome" meaning in English

See mightsome in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Etymology: From might + -some, perhaps for mite + -some. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|might|some}} might + -some, {{suffix|en|mite|some}} mite + -some Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} mightsome (uncountable)
  1. (informal, regional, nonstandard) A (little) bit; somewhat; a tad. Tags: informal, nonstandard, regional, uncountable
    Sense id: en-mightsome-en-noun-KcHNzPhu Categories (other): Regional English, English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -some Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 61 39 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -some: 89 11
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb

Forms: mightsomes [present, singular, third-person], mightsoming [participle, present], mightsomed [participle, past], mightsomed [past]
Etymology: From Middle English mightsomen, mihtsomen, apparently an alteration of Middle English nühtsomen, from Old English ġenyhtsumian (“to abound, have abundance, suffice”), from Proto-Germanic *ganuhtsumōną (“to suffice”), from *nuhtiz (“sufficiency, enoughness”), from Proto-Indo-European *eneḱ-, *neḱ- (“to reach, attain”). Cognate with Old High German ginuhtsamōn (“to be sufficient”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|mightsomen}} Middle English mightsomen, {{m|enm|mihtsomen}} mihtsomen, {{der|en|enm|nuhtsumen|nühtsomen}} Middle English nühtsomen, {{der|en|ang|ġenyhtsumian||to abound, have abundance, suffice}} Old English ġenyhtsumian (“to abound, have abundance, suffice”), {{der|en|gem-pro|*ganuhtsumōną||to suffice}} Proto-Germanic *ganuhtsumōną (“to suffice”), {{m|gem-pro|*nuhtiz||sufficiency, enoughness}} *nuhtiz (“sufficiency, enoughness”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*eneḱ-}} Proto-Indo-European *eneḱ-, {{m|ine-pro|*neḱ-||to reach, attain}} *neḱ- (“to reach, attain”), {{cog|goh|ginuhtsamōn||to be sufficient}} Old High German ginuhtsamōn (“to be sufficient”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} mightsome (third-person singular simple present mightsomes, present participle mightsoming, simple past and past participle mightsomed)
  1. (intransitive, dialectal) To be powerful. Tags: dialectal, intransitive Derived forms: mightsomand, mightsomeness
    Sense id: en-mightsome-en-verb-NKslr~Kf
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Download JSON data for mightsome meaning in English (3.9kB)

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