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Mought
Definitions
- 1 Alternative form of might. alt-of, alternative, dialectal, obsolete
""I'm a plain man; rum and bacon and eggs is what I want, and that head up there for to watch ships off. What you mought call me? You mought call me captain...""
- 2 past participle of may. auxiliary, form-of, obsolete, participle, past
"sythe I suppose in my selfe þᵗ yf we had mought cõuenyẽtly cum to gether ye wold rather haue chosĩ to haue hard my mynde of myn owne mouth thã by þᵉ mean of a nother (Modern Spelling) Since I suppose in myself that if we had mought conveniently come together you would rather have chosen to have heard my mind of mine own mouth than by the mean of another."
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English moghte, from Old English muhte, late variant of meahte, mihte (“might”) due to the influence of the infinitive *mugan, itself an analogical remodelling of magan (“to be capable, to be able to”) after dugan (“to be useful”).
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