Methinks Definition
mĭ-thĭngks
methought
verb
It seems to me.
American Heritage
It seems to me.
Webster's New World
contraction
(archaic or humorous) It seems to me.
Wiktionary
Origin of Methinks
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From me (object pronoun = "to me") + think (from Old English þyncan). In Early Modern English, used at least 150 times by William Shakespeare; in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer, me thinketh; and in Old English by Alfred the Great, me þyncþ.
From Wiktionary
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Middle English me thinkes from Old English mē thyncth mē to me me thyncth it seems tong- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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