mist

EnglishEdit

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mist

EtymologyEdit

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”).

PronunciationEdit

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

NounEdit

mist (countable and uncountable, plural mists)

(countable, uncountable) Water or other liquid finely suspended in air.
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.
(figuratively) 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: Printed for Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 228732415:
  
  His passion cast a mist before his sense.

Derived termsEdit

Derived terms

mists of time

TranslationsEdit

Water or other liquid finely suspended in air

Ainu: メニ (meni), ペヘ (pehe)
Albanian: mjegull (sq)
Arabic: السديم‎
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 (zh), 薄雾 (zh) (bówù)
Czech: mlha (cs) f
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: Nebel (de) m, 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: nebbia (it) f, foschia (it) f, bruma (it) f
Japanese: 霞み (かすみ, kasumi), 霧 (ja) (きり, kiri)
Javanese: pedhut (jv)
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)
Malay: kabus (ms), 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)
Sanskrit: नभस् (sa) n (nabhas)
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 9 or 10

A layer of fine droplets or particles

Dutch: waas (nl)
French: buée (fr) f
Hebrew: אדים‎ m pl (edim)

Norwegian:
Bokmål: tåke (no) m or f
Swedish: dimma (sv) c

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Translations to be checked

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.

(Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
(of the eyes) To be covered by tears.
My eyes misted when I remembered what had happened.

Derived termsEdit

Derived terms

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

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 main entry.

VerbEdit

mist

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

Etymology 3Edit

See the etymology of the main entry.

VerbEdit

mist

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

AnagramsEdit

mits

IngrianEdit

PronounEdit

mist

whence

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