mist

See also: Mist, MiST, and MIST

English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /mɪst/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪst
  • Homophone: missed

Etymology 1

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”).

Noun

mist (countable and uncountable, plural mists)

  1. (countable, uncountable) Water or other liquid finely suspended in air. (Compare fog, haze.)
    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.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Terms derived from mist
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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.
  4. (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.
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

mist

  1. (obsolete) past tense of miss

Anagrams

Danish

Verb

mist

  1. imperative of miste

Dutch

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /mɪst/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: mist
  • Rhymes: -ɪst

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
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: mis

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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 corresponding lemma form.

Verb

mist

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

Anagrams

Ingrian

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

Pronoun

mist

  1. elative of mikä

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

Latvian

Verb

mist (intr., 1st conj., pres. mītu, mīt, mīt, past mitu)

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

Conjugation
conjugation of mist
INDICATIVE (īstenības izteiksme) IMPERATIVE
(pavēles izteiksme)
Present
(tagadne)		 Past
(pagātne)		 Future
(nākotne)
1st pers. sg. es mītu mitu mitīšu —
2nd pers. sg. tu mīt miti mitīsi mīt
3rd pers. sg. viņš, viņa mīt mita mitīs lai mīt
1st pers. pl. mēs mītam mitām mitīsim mitīsim
2nd pers. pl. jūs mītat mitāt mitīsiet,
mitīsit		 mītiet
3rd pers. pl. viņi, viņas mīt mita mitīs lai mīt
RENARRATIVE (atstāstījuma izteiksme) PARTICIPLES (divdabji)
Present mītot Present Active 1 (Adj.) mītošs
Past esot mitis Present Active 2 (Adv.) mizdams
Future mitīšot Present Active 3 (Adv.) mītot
Imperative lai mītot Present Active 4 (Obj.) mītam
CONDITIONAL (vēlējuma izteiksme) Past Active mitis
Present mistu Present Passive mītams
Past būtu mitis Past Passive mists
DEBITIVE (vajadzības izteiksme) NOMINAL FORMS
Indicative (būt) jāmīt Infinitive (nenoteiksme) mist
Conjunctive 1 esot jāmīt Negative Infinitive nemist
Conjunctive 2 jāmītot Verbal noun mišana

Middle English

Noun

mist

  1. Alternative form of myst (“mist”)

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
Declension of mist (strong a-stem)
Case Singular Plural
nominative mist mistas
accusative mist mistas
genitive mistes mista
dative miste mistum

Descendants

Swedish

Etymology

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

Noun

mist c

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

Usage notes

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

Declension
Declension of mist 
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative mist misten — —
Genitive mists mistens — —

Verb

mist

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

Anagrams
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