mist

• IPA^(key): /mɪst/

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• Rhymes: -ɪst
• Homophone: missed

The noun is from Middle English mist, from Old English mist (“mist; darkness; dimness (of eyesight)”), from Proto-Germanic *mihstaz (“mist, fog”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃migʰstos, from the root *h₃meygʰ- (“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 मेघ (megha, “cloud”), Russian мгла (mgla, “fog, haze”).

The verb is from Middle English misten, from Old English mistian.

mist (countable and uncountable, plural mists)

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

   Synonym: brume

   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. (figurative) Anything that dims, darkens, or hinders vision.
   • 1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     His passion cast a mist before his sense.

   • 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Hooktail Castle:

     Alas, I do not have the strength to continue writing. Already, mist veils my eyes.

• camanchaca
• Scotch mist

mist (third-person singular simple present mists, present participle misting, simple past and past participle misted)

1. (intransitive) To form mist.

   It's misting this morning.

2. (transitive) To spray fine droplets on, particularly of water.

   I mist my tropical plants every morning.

3. (transitive) To cover with a mist.

   The lens was misted.

   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:

     her breath will mist or staine the stone

4. (transitive, of the eyes) To be covered by tears.

   My eyes misted when I remembered what had happened.

5. (printing, of ink) To disperse into a mist, accompanying operation of equipment at high speeds.

mist

1. (obsolete) past of miss
   • 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:

     you shall be mist at Court

• ISTM, ITSM, Smit, TIMS, TIMs, TMIs, Tims, smit, stim

mist

1. imperative of miste

• IPA^(key): /mɪst/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: mist
• Rhymes: -ɪst

From Middle Dutch mist, from Old Dutch *mist, from Proto-Germanic *mihstaz.

mist m (plural misten, diminutive mistje n)

1. fog, mist

• Afrikaans: mis

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mist

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mist

1. inflection of misten:
   1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

• mits

• IPA^(key): /mɪst/
• Rhymes: -ɪst
• Hyphenation: mist

mist

1. supine of missa

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈmistæ/, [ˈmis̠t]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈmist/, [ˈmiʃt]
• Rhymes: -ist
• Hyphenation: mist

mist

1. elative of mikä

• V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎^[1], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 100

mist (intransitive, 1st conjugation, present mītu, mīt, mīt, past mitu)

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

• dzīvot

mist

1. alternative form of myst (“mist”)

mist

1. alternative form of myst (“mysteries”)

From Proto-Germanic *mihstaz.

mist m

1. (Mooring) mist

• mistmoune

mist

1. imperative of miste

mist

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

From Proto-Germanic *mihstaz.

• IPA^(key): /mist/

mist m

1. fog
2. mist

Strong a-stem:

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

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

mist c

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

Mostly at sea. The more common word for fog is dimma.

• mistlur

mist

1. past participle of mista

mist

1. inflection of mista:
   1. imperative
   2. supine

• mist in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• mist in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• mist in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• stim