mist

See also: Mist, MiST, and MIST

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪst/

• Audio (US):

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• 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)

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.

   • 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

• camanchaca
• Scotch mist

Derived terms

• Australian Mist
• black mist
• devil-in-a-mist
• ecto-mist
• ground mist, ground-mist
• love in a mist, love-in-a-mist
• magic mist
• mist belt, mist-belt
• mistflower
• mist frog
• mistful
• 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), çən
• 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: brumo (eo), 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)
• 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) (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

• 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

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• 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)

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

• 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

1. (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

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

• bemisten
• de mist ingaan
• misthoorn
• mistig
• mistlamp
• ochtendmist

Descendants

• Afrikaans: mis

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

mist

1. 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

1. 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

1. supine of missa

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 (intransitive, 1st conjugation, present 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 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

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

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *mihstaz.

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

Strong a-stem:

	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

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	mist	mists
	definite	misten	mistens
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

Related terms

• mistlur

Participle

mist

1. past participle of mista

Verb

mist

1. inflection of mista:
   1. imperative
   2. supine

References

• mist in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• mist in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• mist in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• stim