mayhappen

American  

[mey-hap-uhn] / ˌmeɪˈhæp ən /

adverb

Archaic.

1. perhaps; mayhap.

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Etymology

Origin of mayhappen

First recorded in 1520–30; short for it may happen

Example Sentences

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mayhappen

Haps will go as haps will; and it maybe that ye shall both live for another battle, and grow wiser, and mayhappen abide in the wood with the reiver's men.

From Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair by William Morris

But anon he arose and said: "Now, Lord, we ask leave to depart for the way is long, and mayhappen my kindred now lack a man's helping."

From The Well at the World's End: a tale by William Morris

Albeit thou art a young man and hast ridden far to-day belike, and mayhappen thou wilt not be able to endure it: so it may be well to bring thee out of this throng straightway.

From The Well at the World's End: a tale by William Morris

So Sigurd proved the sword, and brake it even as the first; then he said to Regin— "Ah, art thou, mayhappen, a traitor and a liar like to those former kin of thine?"

From The Story of the Volsungs, (Volsunga Saga) With Excerpts from the Poetic Edda by William Morris

But the Lady looked on him and said: "It is naught save a hart and his hind running in the wood; yet mayhappen we were best on the road, for it is yet long."

From The Well at the World's End: a tale by William Morris