# mist
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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

* 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

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#### Verb

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.
** 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
* (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

* bemist
* demist
* demister
* mist over
* unmist

##### Translations
### 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

## Danish
### Verb

mist
* imperative of miste

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /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

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

##### Descendants

* Afrikaans: mis

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

mist
* inflection of missen:
** second/third-person singular present indicative
** (archaic) plural imperative

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

mist
* inflection of misten:
** first/second/third-person singular present indicative
** imperative

### Anagrams

* mits

## Faroese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɪst/
* Rhymes: -ɪst
* Hyphenation: mist

### Verb

mist
* supine of missa

## Ingrian
### Pronunciation

* (Ala-Laukaa) IPA: /ˈmistæ/, [ˈmis̠t]
* (Soikkola) IPA: /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

#### Related terms

* dzīvot

## Middle English
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

mist
* Alternative form of myst (“mist”)

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

mist
* Alternative form of myst (“mysteries”)

## North Frisian
### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *mihstaz.

### Noun

mist m
* (Mooring) mist

#### Derived terms

* mistmoune

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Verb

mist
* imperative of miste

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Verb

mist
* past participle of missa
* inflection of mista:
** past participle
** imperative

## Old English
### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *mihstaz.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mist/

### Noun

mist m
* fog
* mist

#### Declension

Strong a-stem:

#### Descendants

* Middle English: mist
** Scots: mist
** English: mist

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Old Norse mistr, from Proto-Germanic *mihstaz.

### Noun

mist c
* 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.

#### Related terms

* mistlur

### Participle

mist
* past participle of mista

### Verb

mist
* inflection of mista:
** imperative
** supine

### References

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

### Anagrams

* stim