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me⋅thinks

  [mi-thingks]
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–verb (impersonal); past me⋅thought. Archaic.
it seems to me.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME me thinketh, OE me thyncth. See me, think 2 , -s 2
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me·thinks   (mĭ-thĭngks')   
intr.v.   Past tense me·thought (-thôt') Archaic
It seems to me.

[Middle English me thinkes, from Old English mē thyncth : mē, to me; see me + thyncth, it seems; see tong- in Indo-European roots.]
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Word Origin & History

methinks 
O.E. me þyncð "it seems to me," from me, dat. of I, + þyncð, third pers. sing. of þyncan "to seem," reflecting the O.E. distinction between þyncan "to seem" and related þencan "to think," which bedevils modern students of the language (see think). The two words were constantly confused, then finally merged, in M.E.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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