mehopes

Etymology
Apparently a neologistic pseudoarchaism, designed to resemble or, which are genuinely archaic.

Contraction

 * 1)  I hope.
 * 2) * 1860?, in Godey's Magazine, volumes 60-61, page 424:
 * "Gentle maiden, though a captive, mehopes thou hast not found this confinement irksome, "