mist

See also: Mist and MiST

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 *migʰ-, *migʰ-lo- (“drizzle, fog”), from Proto-Indo-European *meygʰ- (“to flicker, blink, be dark; cloud, mist”). 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”), Russian мгла (mgla, “fog, haze”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪst/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɪst
• Homophone: missed

Noun

mist (countable and uncountable, plural mists)

1. (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 or darkens, and obscures or intercepts vision.
   • Dryden

     His passion cast a mist before his sense.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• mists of time

• misty
• red mist

Translations

Water or other liquid finely suspended in air

• Ainu: メニ (meni), ペヘ (pehe)
• Albanian: mjegull (sq)
• Arabic: السديم‎
• Bashkir: томан (toman)
• Bau Bidayuh: obus
• Catalan: boira (ca) f
• Central Melanau: abuih
• Chamicuro: puuya
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 薄霧 (zh), 薄雾 (zh) (bówù)

• Czech: mlha (cs) f
• Dutch: mist (nl), nevel (nl), damp (nl)
• Esperanto: nebulo
• Estonian: udu, 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: Nebel (de) m, Dunst (de) m
• Greek: καταχνιά (el) f (katachniá), πούσι (el) n (poúsi)

  Ancient: ὀμίχλη f (omíkhlē), (Epic) ἀήρ f (aḗr)

• Hebrew: אפלולית‎ f (aflulít), אפרורית‎ (he) f (afrurít)
• Hungarian: köd (hu)
• Icelandic: mistur (is) m
• Indonesian: pedut (id)
• Iranun: lekep
• Italian: nebbia (it) f, foschia (it) f, bruma (it) f
• Japanese: 霞み (かすみ, kasumi), 霧 (ja) (きり, kiri)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: مژ‎ (mij)

  Kurmanji: mij (ku) f

  Sorani: ته‌م‎ (ku) (tam)

• Latgalian: dyumuoklis, mygla

• Latin: cālīgō f, nebula
• Latvian: migla (lv) f, dūmaka f
• Lithuanian: migla f, rūkas m
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: dook (Gronings)

• Malay: kabus, halimun
• 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)
• Saterland Frisian: Dook
• Serbo-Croatian: sumaglica (sh)
• Slovak: hmla (sk) f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: mła f

• Spanish: niebla (es) f, neblina (es) f, bruma (es) f
• Sundanese: pepedut
• Swedish: dimma (sv) c, mist (sv) m
• 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: שיכבה דקה‎ f (shikhvá daká)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tåke (no) m or f

• Swedish: dimma (sv) c

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

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

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.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)

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

   My eyes misted when I remembered what had happened.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• bemist
• demist

• demister
• mist over

Translations

To form mist

• 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, zrosić

• Russian: орошать (ru) impf (orošatʹ)

To cover with a mist

• Maori: tāwaikohu

• Polish: zaparować, pokryć (pl) rosą

To be covered by tears

• Polish: zajść (pl) łzami

Anagrams

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

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Danish

Verb

mist

1. imperative of miste

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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

• 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

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Ingrian

Pronoun

mist

1. whence

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Latvian

Pronunciation

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

Related terms

• dzīvot

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Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English mist (“mist; darkness; dimness (of eyesight)”); see myst for more information.

Noun

mist (plural mistes)

1. Alternative form of myst.

References

• “mist n. (1)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 7 April 2018.

Etymology 2

From mysty (“symbolic, figurative”).

Noun

mist (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of myst.

References

• “mist n. (2)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 7 April 2018.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

mist

1. imperative of miste

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

mist

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

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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

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

Related terms

• mistlur

Verb

mist

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