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See also: Mist, MiST, and MIST

English

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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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.

Noun

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.
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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.
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Etymology 2

Verb

mist

  1. (obsolete) past of miss

Anagrams

Danish

Verb

mist

  1. imperative of miste

Dutch

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

mist

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

Anagrams

Ingrian

Pronunciation

Pronoun

mist

  1. elative of mikä

References

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

Latvian

Pronunciation

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Verb

mist (intransitive, 1st conjugation, present 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

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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

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 — —

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Participle

mist

  1. past participle of mista

Verb

mist

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

Anagrams

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