quiçab

Alteration of qui sabe (“who knows”), from Latin qui sapit.

• IPA^(key): /kiˈt͡sab/

quiçab

1. perhaps, maybe
   • c. 1200: Alerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 2r.

     […] Aplegos abraam ael. e dẏxol. eaſis ꝑdera 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?”

• Spanish: quizá