mightst

«mightst» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: might (with you) — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

might (with you)

part of speech

verb, past tense of might, used with thou (second person singular)

meaning for a pupil

Had the power to do something; were able to. tree →

how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say "you might"; the -st ending belonged to thou.

examples

• So thou wast made poor and a vagabond on the face of the earth that thou mightst pick up wisdom, if but a little. (Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales) tree →

primary record

might

tests

manual 5; corpora 2 (Torah 0, tales 2, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.2 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «mightst» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.