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English

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mist

Pronunciation

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

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)

(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.
- 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Hooktail Castle:
  Alas, I do not have the strength to continue writing. Already, mist veils my eyes.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

water or other liquid finely suspended in air

Ainu: メニ (meni), ペヘ (pehe)
Albanian: mjegull (sq)
Arabic: سَدِيم (sadīm)
Azerbaijani: duman (az), çən
Bashkir: томан (toman)
Bau Bidayuh: obus
Bulgarian: мъгла (bg) f (mǎgla)
Catalan: boira (ca) f
Central Melanau: abuih
Chamicuro: puuya
Chichewa: nkhúngu class 9
Chinese:
Mandarin: 薄霧 / 薄雾 (zh) (bówù)
Czech: mlha (cs) f
Danish: tåge (da) c
Dutch: mist (nl), nevel (nl), damp (nl)
Esperanto: brumo, 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)
Hanunoo: alinyabo
Hebrew: אד (he) m (ed), ערפל (he) m ('arafél)
Hindi: धुंध (hi) f (dhundh), कोहरा (hi) m (kohrā)
Hungarian: köd (hu)
Icelandic: mistur (is) m
Indonesian: pedut (id), kabus (id), halimun (id)
Ingrian: tomakka, utu, sumu, peeru, häkä, höyry
Iranun: lekep
Italian: foschia (it) f, bruma (it) f
Japanese: 霞み (かすみ, kasumi), 霧 (ja) (きり, kiri)
Javanese: pedhut (jv)
Kashmiri: وُنَل (vunal)
Korean: 안개 (ko) (an'gae)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: مژ (mij), تەم (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) (miġ)
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
Southern Altai: туман (tuman)
Spanish: neblina (es) f, bruma (es) f
Sundanese: pepedut
Swedish: dis (sv) n
Tagalog: ulop
Tarifit: tayyut f, tagut f
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
Woiwurrung: ^{(please verify)} boorr-arrang

Verb

mist (third-person singular simple present mists, present participle misting, simple past and past participle misted)

(intransitive) To form mist.
It's misting this morning.
(transitive) To spray fine droplets on, particularly of water.
I mist my tropical plants every morning.
(intransitive) To rain in very fine droplets.
- 1996, Don McCabe, Word Families in Sentence Context, AVKO Foundation, →ISBN, page 235:
  ... it's misting outside. When it mists outside it's half fog and half rain.
- 2013 April 2, Don Pendleton, Nuclear Intent, Gold Eagle, →ISBN, page 238:
  On this particular early morning , with a bitter cold rain misting down, Seminov was reaching the end of his endurance.
- 2023 November 20, Jack Canfield, Chicken Soup for the Soul Series: The Power of Positive: 101 Inspirational Stories about Changing Your Life through Positive Thinking, Jaico Publishing House, →ISBN, page 25:
  ... rain misting outside from thick clouds.
(transitive) 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
(transitive, 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 terms

Translations

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

Finnish: mennä huuruun, huuruuntua
Maori: tāwaikohu
Polish: zaparować, pokryć (pl) rosą

to be covered by tears

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

Etymology 2

Verb

mist

(obsolete) past 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

Anagrams

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

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Danish

Verb

mist

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)

fog, mist

Derived terms

Descendants

Afrikaans: mis

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

mist

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

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

Anagrams

mits

Faroese

Pronunciation

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

Verb

mist

supine of missa

Ingrian

Pronunciation

(Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈmistæ/, [ˈmis̠t]

(Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈmist/, [ˈmiʃt]

Rhymes: -ist

Hyphenation: mist

Pronoun

mist

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)

to live
to dwell
to reside

Conjugation

More information indicative (īstenības izteiksme), imperative (pavēles izteiksme) ...

Conjugation of *mist* (1st)
	indicative (īstenības izteiksme)	imperative (pavēles izteiksme)
		present (tagadne)	past (pagātne)	future (nākotne)
1st person sg	es	mītu	mitu	mitīšu	—
2nd person sg	tu	mīt	miti	mitīsi	mīt
3rd person sg	viņš, viņa	mīt	mita	mitīs	lai mīt
1st person pl	mēs	mītam	mitām	mitīsim	mitīsim
2nd person pl	jūs	mītat	mitāt	mitīsiet, mitīsit	mītiet
3rd person 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