quiçab
Old Spanish
Etymology
Alteration of qui sabe (“who knows”), from Latin qui sapit.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [kiˈt͡saβ], [kiˈt͡sap]
Adverb
quiçab
- perhaps, maybe
- c. 1200: Alerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 2r.
- […] Aplegos abraam ael. e dẏxol. eaſis p̱dera el iuſto. por el peccador. Quiçab. ha. L. iuſtos en eſta uilla e pues matar los as. E non parçiras allogar por los. L. iuſtos.
- […] Abraham approached him and said to him, “So should the righteous be lost because of the sinner? Perhaps there are fifty righteous in this city and thus you would kill them. Will you not spare the place for the fifty righteous?”
- […] Aplegos abraam ael. e dẏxol. eaſis p̱dera el iuſto. por el peccador. Quiçab. ha. L. iuſtos en eſta uilla e pues matar los as. E non parçiras allogar por los. L. iuſtos.
- c. 1200: Alerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 2r.
Descendants
- Spanish: quizá