mist

See also: Mist, MiST, and MIST

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪst/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪst
• Homophone: missed

Etymology 1

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”).

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.
   • 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.

Hyponyms

• camanchaca
• Scotch mist

Derived terms

• black mist
• ground-mist
• ground mist
• love-in-a-mist
• love in a mist
• mist belt
• mist-belt
• mist frog
• mist net
• mists of time
• mist up
• misty
• red mist

 

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)
• 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 (ckb) (mij), تەم‎ (ckb) (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

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.

   • 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

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.

Derived terms

• bemist
• demist
• demister
• mist over
• unmist

 

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

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

To be covered by tears

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

Etymology 2

Verb

mist

1. (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

Anagrams

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

Danish

Verb

mist

1. 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)

1. fog, mist

Derived terms

• misthoorn
• mistig
• mistlamp

Descendants

• Afrikaans: mis

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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 corresponding lemma form.

Verb

mist

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

Anagrams

• mits

Ingrian

Pronunciation

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

Pronoun

mist

1. elative of mikä

References

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

Latvian

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

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

• mistmoune

 

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

• IPA^(key): /mist/

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

• Middle English: mist
  • Scots: mist
  • English: mist

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	—	—

Related terms

• mistlur

Verb

mist

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

Anagrams

• stim