mist

See also: Mist, MiST, and MIST

EnglishEdit

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mist

PronunciationEdit

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

Etymology 1Edit

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”).

NounEdit

mist (countable and uncountable, plural mists)

(countable, uncountable) Water or other liquid finely suspended in air. (Compare fog, haze.)
- Synonym: brume
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.
(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.

HyponymsEdit

Derived termsEdit

Terms derived from mist

TranslationsEdit

Water or other liquid finely suspended in air

Ainu: メニ (meni), ペヘ (pehe)
Albanian: mjegull (sq)
Arabic: سَدِيم‎ (sadīm)
Azerbaijani: duman (az)
Bashkir: томан (toman)
Bau Bidayuh: obus
Bulgarian: мъгла (bg) f (mǎgla)
Catalan: boira (ca) f
Central Melanau: abuih
Chamicuro: puuya
Chinese:
Mandarin: 薄霧／薄雾 (zh) (bówù)
Czech: mlha (cs) f
Danish: tåge (da) c
Dutch: mist (nl), nevel (nl), damp (nl)
Esperanto: nebulo
Estonian: udu (et), vine (et)
Faroese: tám n, mjørkatám n
Finnish: sumu (fi), usva (fi), utu (fi), terhen (fi), auer (fi), huuru (fi), häkärä (fi)
French: brouillard (fr) m, brume (fr) f
Galician: néboa (gl) f, brétema (gl) f, mera (gl) f
German: Dunst (de) m
Greek: αντάρα (el) f (antára)
Ancient: ὀμίχλη f (omíkhlē), ἀχλύς f (akhlús), (Epic) ἀήρ f (aḗr)
Hebrew: אד‎ (he) m (ed), ערפל‎ (he) m ('arafél)
Hungarian: köd (hu)
Icelandic: mistur (is) m
Indonesian: pedut (id)
Iranun: lekep
Italian: foschia (it) f, bruma (it) f
Japanese: 霞み (かすみ, kasumi), 霧 (ja) (きり, kiri)
Javanese: pedhut (jv)
Korean: 안개 (ko) (an'gae)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: مژ‎ (ku) (mij), تەم‎ (ku) (tem)

Northern Kurdish: mij (ku) f
Latgalian: dyumuoklis, mygla
Latin: cālīgō f, nebula f
Latvian: migla (lv) f, dūmaka f
Lithuanian: migla f, rūkas m
Low German:
Dutch Low Saxon: dook (Gronings)
Macedonian: ма́гла f (mágla)
Malay: kabus (ms), halimun
Malayalam: മഞ്ഞ് (ml) (maññŭ)
Maori: tuarehu
Nahuatl: apoctli (nah), ayahuitl
Navajo: áhí
Norman: bliâsîn m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: dis (no) m, tåke (no) m or f, skodde (no) m or f

Nynorsk: dis m, tåke f, skodde f
Persian: مه تنک‎ (meh-e tonok), میغ‎ (fa) (miğ)
Pitjantjatjara: aṟuma
Polish: mgła (pl) f
Portuguese: névoa (pt) f, neblina (pt) f, bruma (pt) f, brêtema (pt) f
Rapa Nui: 'ehu
Romanian: ceață (ro) f, negură (ro) f
Russian: тума́н (ru) m (tumán), ды́мка (ru) f (dýmka), мгла (ru) f (mgla)
Sanskrit: नभस् (sa) n (nabhas)
Saterland Frisian: Dook
Serbo-Croatian: sumaglica (sh)
Slovak: hmla (sk) f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: mła f
Spanish: neblina (es) f, bruma (es) f
Sundanese: pepedut
Swedish: dis (sv) n
Tagalog: ulop
Ukrainian: туман (uk) m (tuman), серпанок (uk) m (serpanok)
Volapük: fog (vo)
Welsh: niwl (cy) m, niwlen f, nudden f, tarth (cy) m
Zulu: inkungu class 9/10

A layer of fine droplets or particles

Dutch: waas (nl)
French: buée (fr) f
Hebrew: אדים‎ (he) m pl (edim)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: tåke (no) m or f
Swedish: dimma (sv) c

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Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} rūkas m, ^{(please verify)} ūkana f, ^{(please verify)} ūkas f

VerbEdit

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.
- 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
(of the eyes) To be covered by tears.
My eyes misted when I remembered what had happened.
(printing, of ink) To disperse into a mist, accompanying operation of equipment at high speeds.

Derived termsEdit

TranslationsEdit

To form mist

Bulgarian: замъглявам (bg) (zamǎgljavam)
French: faire de la brume, brumer (fr)
Japanese: 霞む (ja) (かすむ, kasumu)
Polish: zamglić się
Portuguese: enevoar
Welsh: niwlio

To spray fine droplets on

Finnish: sumuttaa (fi)
Polish: zraszać (pl), zrosić
Russian: орошать (ru) impf (orošatʹ)

To cover with a mist

Maori: tāwaikohu
Polish: zaparować, pokryć (pl) rosą

To be covered by tears

Bulgarian: просълзявам се (prosǎlzjavam se)
Polish: zajść (pl) łzami

Etymology 2Edit

VerbEdit

mist

(obsolete) past tense 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

AnagramsEdit

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

DanishEdit

VerbEdit

mist

imperative of miste

DutchEdit

PronunciationEdit

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

Etymology 1Edit

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

NounEdit

mist m (plural misten, diminutive mistje n)

fog, mist

Derived termsEdit

DescendantsEdit

Afrikaans: mis

Etymology 2Edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

VerbEdit

mist

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

Etymology 3Edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

VerbEdit

mist

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

AnagramsEdit

mits

IngrianEdit

PronunciationEdit

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

PronounEdit

mist

elative of mikä

ReferencesEdit

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

LatvianEdit

PronunciationEdit

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VerbEdit

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

to live
to dwell
to reside

ConjugationEdit

conjugation of mist

	INDICATIVE (īstenības izteiksme)				IMPERATIVE (pavēles izteiksme)
		Present (tagadne)	Past (pagātne)	Future (nākotne)	IMPERATIVE (pavēles izteiksme)
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