词汇 | perhaps |
词源 | perhaps [LME] This is an unusual hybrid of French and Old Norse words. The first half is French per ‘by’ from Latin per ‘by means of’. The second Middle English hap ‘chance, fortune’, which was adopted from Old Norse (see happy). The final ‘s’ only appears about 1520. |
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