might

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• mīt
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• /maɪt/
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• Received-Pronunciation: [maɪt]
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• US: [mɐɪt]
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• British, Southern, Standard: [mɑjt]
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• Canada: [məjt]
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• Australian: [mɑɪt]
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• homophone: mite
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• rhymes with -aɪt
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• CMU ARPABET: M AY1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English maught, might, miȝt, myght, from Old English maht, meaht, meht, mieht, miht, mæht (“ability, power; strength; virtue”), from Proto-West Germanic *mahti, from Proto-Germanic *mahtiz (“ability, power; force, strength”), from Proto-Indo-European *(me)móghe (“to be able to, to have power”), from *megh- (“to be able”), corresponding to Germanic *maganą (“to be able, may”) + *-þiz. Equivalent to may + -th. Cognates Cognate with Scots micht (“might”), Yola mought (“might”), Dutch macht (“might, power”), German Macht (“might, power”), Luxembourgish Muecht (“authority, might, power”), Yiddish מאַכט (makht, “might, power”), Faroese and Icelandic máttur (“might, strength”), Danish magt (“power; force”), Norwegian Bokmål makt (“power”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish makt (“power; force”), mått (“might, power”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌷𐍄𐍃 (mahts, “ability, might, power”), and further to Irish smacht (“ordinance, regulation, rule; dominion, sway; control, discipline, restraint; fine, penalty”), Greek μάγος (mágos, “magician; sorcerer, wizard”), Lithuanian mėgti (“to like”), Belarusian моц (moc, “might, power”), Bulgarian мощ (mošt, “might, power”), Czech and Polish moc (“might, power”), Macedonian моќ (moḱ, “might, power”), Russian мочь (močʹ, “power, might”) and мощь (moščʹ, “force, strength”), Serbo-Croatian мо̑ћ, mȏć (“power; strength; potency; authority”), Slovene moč (“power; strength”), Ukrainian міч (mič) and міць (micʹ, “might, power”), Armenian մոգ (mog, “magus; fire-worshiper, Zoroastrian; astrologer; diviner, enchanter, sorcerer, wizard”), Persian مغ (moġ, “magus”), Sanskrit मघ (magha, “power, wealth; bounty, gift, reward”). See more at may.

From Old English meahte and mihte, inflections of magan, whence English may.

142 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: fuqi — personal power
• Gheg Albanian: muji — personal power
• Arabic: قُوَّة (quwwa) — personal power
• Armenian: զորություն (zorutʻyun) — personal power
• Armenian: հզորություն (hzorutʻyun) — personal power
• Azerbaijani: qüdrət — personal power
• Bulgarian: мощ (mošt) — personal power
• Bulgarian: могъщество (mogǎštestvo) — personal power
• Czech: moc — personal power
• Dutch: macht — personal power
• Egyptian: wsr-s-r-w-A24-Z2 (wsrw) — personal power
• Finnish: mahti — personal power
• Finnish: voima — personal power
• French: pouvoir — personal power
• French: puissance — personal power
• Georgian: სიძლიერე (siʒliere) — personal power
• German: Macht — personal power
• Gothic: 𐌼𐌰𐌷𐍄𐍃 (mahts) — personal power
• Ancient Greek: κράτος (krátos) — personal power
• Ancient Greek: δύναμις (dúnamis) — personal power
• Hungarian: hatalom — personal power
• Italian: potere — personal power
• Korean: 위력 (wiryeok) — personal power
• Latin: potestas — personal power
• Latin: potentia — personal power
• Macedonian: моќ (moḱ) — personal power
• Occitan: poténcia — personal power
• Occitan: poder — personal power
• Old English: afol — personal power
• Plautdietsch: Macht — personal power
• Polish: potęga — personal power
• Polish: moc — personal power
• Portuguese: potência — personal power
• Russian: мощь (moščʹ) — personal power
• Russian: могу́щество (mogúščestvo) — personal power
• Scots: micht — personal power
• Scottish Gaelic: cumhachd — personal power
• Slovene: moč — personal power
• Slovene: mogota — personal power
• Spanish: potestad — personal power
• Spanish: potencia — personal power
• Spanish: poder — personal power
• Spanish: poderío — personal power
• Swedish: makt — personal power
• Tocharian B: maiyyo — personal power
• Turkish: güç — personal power
• Ottoman Turkish: قوت (kuvvet) — personal power
• Ottoman Turkish: مكنت (miknet) — personal power
• Ugaritic: 𐎓𐎇 (ʿz) — personal power
• Ukrainian: міць (micʹ) — personal power
• Ukrainian: могу́тність (mohútnistʹ) — personal power
• Albanian: fuqi — physical strength
• Armenian: ուժ (už) — physical strength
• Azerbaijani: güc — physical strength
• Bulgarian: сила (sila) — physical strength
• Czech: síla — physical strength
• Dutch: kracht — physical strength
• Dutch: macht — physical strength
• Egyptian: pH:t*y-F9-F9 (pḥtj) — physical strength
• Finnish: voima — physical strength
• French: force — physical strength
• Georgian: ძალა (ʒala) — physical strength
• German: Kraft — physical strength
• Gothic: 𐌼𐌰𐌷𐍄𐍃 (mahts) — physical strength
• Ancient Greek: σθένος (sthénos) — physical strength
• Ancient Greek: ἰσχύς (iskhús) — physical strength
• Ancient Greek: ῥώμη (rhṓmē) — physical strength
• Hungarian: erő — physical strength
• Italian: forza — physical strength
• Latin: potentia — physical strength
• Latin: vis — physical strength
• Macedonian: си́ла (síla) — physical strength
• Occitan: fòrça — physical strength
• Occitan: poténcia — physical strength
• Old English: afol — physical strength
• Plautdietsch: Macht — physical strength
• Polish: siła — physical strength
• Portuguese: força — physical strength
• Russian: си́ла (síla) — physical strength
• Slovene: moč — physical strength
• Spanish: potencia — physical strength
• Spanish: fuerza — physical strength
• Spanish: vis — physical strength
• Swedish: kraft — physical strength
• Swedish: styrka — physical strength
• Tocharian B: maiyyo — physical strength
• Turkish: kuvvet — physical strength
• Ottoman Turkish: قوت (kuvvet) — physical strength
• Ottoman Turkish: مكنت (miknet) — physical strength
• Ottoman Turkish: طاقت (takat) — physical strength
• Albanian: mundësi — ability
• Armenian: կարողություն (karoġutʻyun) — ability
• Azerbaijani: qüvvət — ability
• Bulgarian: способност (sposobnost) — ability
• Czech: zdatnost — ability
• Dutch: vermogen — ability
• Finnish: kyky — ability
• Finnish: voima — ability
• German: Macht — ability
• German: Vermögen — ability
• Gothic: 𐌼𐌰𐌷𐍄𐍃 (mahts) — ability
• Hungarian: erő — ability
• Latin: potestas — ability
• Latin: potentia — ability
• Macedonian: мо́жност (móžnost) — ability
• Occitan: poder — ability
• Plautdietsch: Macht — ability
• Polish: zdolność — ability
• Russian: возмо́жность (vozmóžnostʹ) — ability
• Swedish: förmåga — ability
• Swedish: makt — ability
• Turkish: güç — ability
• Turkish: kuvvet — ability
• Albanian: mundësi — indicator of conditional or possible actions
• Armenian: կարող է (karoġ ē) — indicator of conditional or possible actions
• Armenian: կարող են (karoġ en) — indicator of conditional or possible actions
• Dutch: zou kunnen — indicator of conditional or possible actions
• Esperanto: eble — indicator of conditional or possible actions
• Finnish: saattaa — indicator of conditional or possible actions
• French: peut-être — indicator of conditional or possible actions
• German: könnte — indicator of conditional or possible actions
• German: könnten — indicator of conditional or possible actions
• Ancient Greek: ἄν (án) — indicator of conditional or possible actions
• Hebrew: עָלוּל ('alúl) — indicator of conditional or possible actions
• Hebrew: יָכֹל (yachól) — indicator of conditional or possible actions
• Hungarian: lehet — indicator of conditional or possible actions
• Hungarian: talán — indicator of conditional or possible actions
• Hungarian: esetleg — indicator of conditional or possible actions
• Italian: potere — indicator of conditional or possible actions
• Japanese: かも知れない (ka mo shirenai) — indicator of conditional or possible actions
• Khmer: ប្រហែល (prɑɑhael) — indicator of conditional or possible actions
• Macedonian: може (može) — indicator of conditional or possible actions
• Polish: można by — indicator of conditional or possible actions
• Portuguese: poder — indicator of conditional or possible actions
• Portuguese: talvez — indicator of conditional or possible actions
• Romanian: putea — indicator of conditional or possible actions
• Scots: micht — indicator of conditional or possible actions
• Spanish: puede que — indicator of conditional or possible actions
• Swedish: kanske — indicator of conditional or possible actions
• Swedish: skulle kunna — indicator of conditional or possible actions
• Ukrainian: мо́же бу́ти (móže búty) — indicator of conditional or possible actions
• Vietnamese: có lẽ — indicator of conditional or possible actions