quizais

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Galician

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese quiçay, quiça, quiçais. Ultimately probably from the Latin expression qui sapit (“who knows”). Compare Portuguese quiçá, Spanish quizá, Italian chissà, Catalan quissà and French qui sait.

Pronunciation

Adverb

quizais

  1. perhaps, maybe
    Synonyms: se cadra, poida
    • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 328:
      quiçays fora mellor estar aló en paz
      maybe it would be better to be there in peace
    • 1671, Gabriel Feixoo de Araúxo, Contenda dos labradores de Caldelas:
      cosais co'esta tunda aqueibaran, enon seran ousados de vir por lan, è volber trasquilados
      perhaps with this beating they will settle down, and they will not dare to come for wool and return shorn

References

  • “quiçais” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “quiç” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “quizais” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “quizais” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “quizais” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
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