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mist
English
Etymology
From Middle English mist, from Old English mist (“mist; darkness; dimness (of eyesight)”), from Proto-Germanic *mihstaz (“mist, fog”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?mig?stos, from the root *h?meyg?- (“cloud, fog, drizzle”). Cognate with Scots mist (“mist, fog”), West Frisian mist (“mist”), Dutch mist (“mist”), Swedish mist (“mist, fog”), Icelandic mistur (“mist”), West Frisian miegelje (“to drizzle”), Dutch dialectal miggelen, miegelen (“to drizzle”), Lithuanian miglà (“fog”), Sanskrit ??? (megha, “cloud”), Russian ???? (mgla, “fog, haze”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /m?st/
- Rhymes: -?st
- Homophone: missed
Noun
mist (countable and uncountable, plural mists)
- (countable, uncountable) Water or other liquid finely suspended in air.
- It was difficult to see through the morning mist.
- (countable) A layer of fine droplets or particles.
- There was an oily mist on the lens.
- (figuratively) Anything that dims, darkens, or hinders vision.
- His passion cast a mist before his sense.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
mist (third-person singular simple present mists, present participle misting, simple past and past participle misted)
- To form mist.
- It's misting this morning.
- To spray fine droplets on, particularly of water.
- I mist my tropical plants every morning.
- To cover with a mist.
- The lens was misted.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
- (of the eyes) To be covered by tears.
- My eyes misted when I remembered what had happened.
Derived terms
Translations
Anagrams
- ISTM, ITSM, Smit, TIMS, TIMs, TMIs, Tims, smit, stim
Danish
Verb
mist
- imperative of miste
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /m?st/
- Hyphenation: mist
- Rhymes: -?st
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch mist, from Old Dutch *mist, from Proto-Germanic *mihstaz.
Noun
mist m (plural misten, diminutive mistje n)
- fog, mist
Derived terms
- misthoorn
- mistig
- mistlamp
Descendants
- Afrikaans: mis
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
mist
- second- and third-person singular present indicative of missen
- (archaic) plural imperative of missen
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
mist
- first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of misten
- imperative of misten
Anagrams
- mits
Ingrian
Pronoun
mist
- whence
Latvian
Pronunciation
Verb
mist (intr., 1st conj., pres. m?tu, m?t, m?t, past mitu)
- to live
- to dwell
- to reside
Conjugation
Related terms
- dz?vot
Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
mist
- Alternative form of myst (“mist”)
Etymology 2
Noun
mist
- Alternative form of myst (“mysteries”)
North Frisian
Noun
mist m
- (Mooring) mist
Derived terms
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
mist
- imperative of miste
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
mist
- past participle of missa
- inflection of mista:
- past participle
- imperative
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *mihstaz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mist/
Noun
mist m
- fog
- mist
Declension
Descendants
- Middle English: mist
- Scots: mist
- English: mist
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse mistr, from Proto-Germanic *mihstaz.
Noun
mist c
- fog (cloud that forms at a low altitude and obscures vision)
Declension
Related terms
- mistlur
Verb
mist
- imperative of mista.
- past participle of mista.
- supine of mista.
Anagrams
- stim
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midst
English
Alternative forms
- midest, middest, middis, middst, myddest, mydest, myddis, myddst, mydst (all obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English in middes (“in the middle”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /m?dst/, [m?dst], [m?tst]
- Rhymes: -?dst
Noun
midst (plural midsts)
- (often literary) A place in the middle of something; may be used of a literal or metaphorical location.
Synonyms
- centre, center, middle
Translations
Preposition
midst
- (rare) Among, in the middle of; amid.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:midst.
Synonyms
- amid
- amidst
Derived terms
- in the midst of
- in one's midst
Translations
Anagrams
- DTIMs, MSTID, Smidt
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