Talk:misschien

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IMHO rather from 'Mag Zijn', which was probably pronounced 'mach sien'. That would also make it a literal equivalent of Maybe.

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I agree. This also makes it equivalent to the German "mag sein", which is an often used standard phrase in modern German. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/User:Houtebeen