mightsome

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A (little) bit; somewhat; a tad. informal,nonstandard,regional,uncountable
    — The ranch, it can get a mightsome lonely.
动词 v.
  1. To be powerful. dialectal,intransitive

词形变化

mightsomes present,singular,third-person mightsoming participle,present mightsomed participle,past mightsomed past

词源

词源 1
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”).
词源 2
From might + -some, perhaps for mite + -some.
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