different between mishappen vs misfall

English

Etymology

From Middle English mishapnen, equivalent to mis- +? happen.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /m?s?hap(?)n/

Verb

mishappen (third-person singular simple present mishappens, present participle mishappening, simple past and past participle mishappened)

1. (obsolete) To encounter grief or misfortune.
2. (now rare) To happen through misfortune.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.iii:

     His fearefull friends weare out the wofull night, / Ne dare to weepe, nor seeme to vnderstand / The heauie hap, which on them is alight, / Affraid, least to themselues the like mishappen might.

3. (intransitive) To happen ill; fare ill.

English

Etymology

From Middle English misfallen, equivalent to mis- +? fall. Cognate with Dutch misvallen (“to misfall, miss in falling, displease, miscarry”), German missfallen (“to displease”), Icelandic misfalla (“to misuse”).

Pronunciation

• (verb) IPA^(key): /m?s?f??l/
• (noun) IPA^(key): /?m?sf??l/

Verb

misfall (third-person singular simple present misfalls, present participle misfalling, simple past misfell, past participle misfallen)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To befall badly or incorrectly; happen unfortunately (to); mishappen; turn out badly.
   • 1889, Henry Morley, Early prose romances:

     [...] let us abide together that, one with the counsel and that other with the deed, then may there nothing misfall to usward.

   • 2009, Eric B. Hare, Skyscrapers:

     However, the principal and his students worked hard, and they soon had the buildings in shape for use and the farm doing as well as possible. Then a terrible misfortune misfell one of the neighbors who was most bitter in his tirades.

Noun

misfall (plural misfalls)

1. A mishap; accident; bad luck; misfortune.
   • 1875, Julian Hawthorne, Saxon studies:

     But alas! an unlooked- for misfall has occurred."