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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)

1. (countable, uncountable) Water or other liquid finely suspended in air.

   It was difficult to see through the morning mist.

2. (countable) A layer of fine droplets or particles.

   There was an oily mist on the lens.

3. (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)

1. To form mist.

   It's misting this morning.

2. To spray fine droplets on, particularly of water.

   I mist my tropical plants every morning.

3. To cover with a mist.

   The lens was misted.

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4. (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

1. 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)

1. fog, mist

Derived terms

• misthoorn
• mistig
• mistlamp

Descendants

• Afrikaans: mis

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

mist

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of missen
2. (archaic) plural imperative of missen

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

mist

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of misten
2. imperative of misten

Anagrams

• mits

Ingrian

Pronoun

mist

1. whence

Latvian

Pronunciation

Verb

mist (intr., 1st conj., pres. m?tu, m?t, m?t, past mitu)

1. to live
2. to dwell
3. to reside

Conjugation

Related terms

• dz?vot

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

mist

1. Alternative form of myst (“mist”)

Etymology 2

Noun

mist

1. Alternative form of myst (“mysteries”)

North Frisian

Noun

mist m

1. (Mooring) mist

Derived terms

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

mist

1. imperative of miste

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

mist

1. past participle of missa
2. inflection of mista:
   1. past participle
   2. imperative

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *mihstaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mist/

Noun

mist m

1. fog
2. mist

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: mist
  • Scots: mist
  • English: mist

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse mistr, from Proto-Germanic *mihstaz.

Noun

mist c

1. fog (cloud that forms at a low altitude and obscures vision)

Declension

Related terms

• mistlur

Verb

mist

1. imperative of mista.
2. past participle of mista.
3. supine of mista.

Anagrams

• stim

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?s?l/

Etymology 1

From Middle English mistel (“basil; mistletoe”), from Old English mistel (“basil; mistletoe”), from Proto-West Germanic *mistil (“mistle”), from Proto-Germanic *mistilaz (“mistle”).

Noun

mistle (countable and uncountable, plural mistles)

1. (obsolete) mistletoe
2. (countable) the mistle thrush

Etymology 2

Verb

mistle (third-person singular simple present mistles, present participle mistling, simple past and past participle mistled)

1. To fall like a fine rain; to drizzle.

Related terms

• mist

Anagrams

• smilet

Morelos Nahuatl

Noun

mistle

1. puma, cat.