different between methinks vs bethinks
methinks
English
Alternative forms
- methinketh, me thinketh, me thinks, mythinks, my thinks
Etymology
From me (“object pronoun”) + think (“to seem”). In Early Modern English, used at least 150 times by William Shakespeare; in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer, me thinketh; and in Old English by Alfred the Great, m? þyncþ. Compare synonymous German mich dünkt.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /m?????ks/
Contraction
methinks (past tense: methought)
- (archaic or humorous) It seems to me.
- ~870-899, Alfred the Great:
- Forthy me thincth betre,
gif iow swæ thincth,
thæt we eac sumæ bec
- Forthy me thincth betre,
- ~1350-1400, Geoffrey Chaucer:
- Me thinketh accordant to reason
To telle you al the condicion
- Me thinketh accordant to reason
- 1591, William Shakespeare, King Richard III: III, i
- methinks the truth should live from age to age,
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act III, scene II
- The lady doth protest too much, methinks.
- 2003, Arrested Development, "Bringing Up Buster":
- Dr. Tobias Funke: Methinks a cupid I shall play.
- ~870-899, Alfred the Great:
Translations
See also
- methought (archaic)
- meseems (obsolete)
- mehopes
References
- John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “methinks”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN
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bethinks
English
Verb
bethinks
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bethink
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