English Explanatory Dictionary

mightsome

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To be powerful.
noun
  1. A (little) bit; somewhat; a tad.

Word forms

mightsome mightsomes mightsoming mightsomed

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”).

Derived words

mightsomand mightsomeness
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