chissà
- (rhetoric) who knows?
- maybe, perhaps
Frequency
Hyphenated as
chis‧sà
Pronounced as (IPA)
/kisˈsa/
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin quī sapit (“who knows”). Cognate with Spanish and Galician quizá, Portuguese quiçá.
Related words
ablins
mayhappen
vielleicht
quizás
peut-être
fortasse
talvez
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