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English word surmise comes from Old French sur- (Over, on top of.), Old French metre (To put, to place.)
sur- (Old French)
Over, on top of.
metre (Old French)
To put, to place.
surmettre (Old French)
surmise (English)
Reflection; thought; posit.. Thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess. To conjecture, to opine or to posit with contestable premises.