Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗Water or other liquid finely suspended in air. (Compare fog, haze.) · A layer of fine droplets or particles. · Anything that dims, darkens, or hinders vision.
To form mist. · To spray fine droplets on, particularly of water. · To rain in very fine droplets. · To cover with a mist.
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.
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- Inherited-form mentionmistenm
- Inherited-form mentionmistang
- Inherited-form mention*mihstazgem-pro
- Cognate mentionmistsco
- Cognate mentionmistfy
- Cognate mentionmistnl
- Cognate mentionmistsv
- Cognate mentionmisturis
- Cognate mentionmiegeljefy
- Cognate mentionmiglàlt
- Cognate mentionमेघsa
- Cognate mentionмглаru
- Inherited-form mentionmistenenm
- Inherited-form mentionmistianang
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