mayhap

Maybe; perhaps; possibly; perchance.

Adverb

  1. Maybe; perhaps; possibly; perchance.
    • I'm one that has spoken to a King, I am: mayhap you'll never see such another […] - 1871, Lewis Carroll, chapter VI, in Through the Looking-Glass:
    • Then I heard the rush, the stamping and neighing, of some young mares, pasturing there, as they raced to and fro, bewildered or mayhap only in play. - 1895, Fiona Macleod, “The Sin-Eater”, in The Sin-Eater, The Washer...
    • "If you're after some money," said the millionaire, "move that cat out of the way." Catweazle shook his head. "Mayhap 'tis a fetch." - 1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin...

Origin

From the phrase “it may hap”.

Derived

mayhaps