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4-letter words (3 found)

MIST,SMIT,STIM,

3-letter words (6 found)

ISM,ITS,MIS,SIM,SIT,TIS,

2-letter words (6 found)

IS,IT,MI,SI,ST,TI,

You can make 15 words from mist according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of mist

mist

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɪst/
  • 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
  2. (countable) A layer of fine droplets or particles.
  3. (figurative) Anything that dims, darkens, or hinders vision.
Hyponyms
  • camanchaca
  • Scotch mist
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) To form mist.
  2. (transitive) To spray fine droplets on, particularly of water.
  3. (transitive) To cover with a mist.
  4. (transitive, of the eyes) To be covered by tears.
  5. (printing, of ink) To disperse into a mist, accompanying operation of equipment at high speeds.
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

Verb

mist

  1. (obsolete) past of miss

Anagrams

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

Danish

Verb

mist

  1. imperative of miste

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɪst/
  • 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
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

Pronunciation

Verb

mist (intransitive, 1st conjugation, present mītu, mīt, mīt, past mitu)

  1. to live
  2. to dwell
  3. to reside

Conjugation

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:

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

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

Source: wiktionary.org