## Etymology
From Old French surmise, feminine past participle of surmettre ('to accuse, lay to the charge of'), from sur- ('upon', from Latin super) + mettre ('to put'), from Latin mittere ('to send').

## AI Etymology
Surmise is from Old French surmise, feminine past participle of surmettre ('to accuse, lay to the charge of'), from sur- ('upon', from Latin super) + mettre ('to put'), from Latin mittere ('to send'). Important recorded forms include surmettre (Old French) and mittere (Latin). Morphologically, the word preserves a built structure whose named elements carry the historical sense into English. The modern sense is largely compositional, with the historical elements narrowing into a stable English lexical item. In current use it covers to suppose something to be true without firm evidence. The wider family includes derived forms such as surmised and surmising and related words such as mission and admit.

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