mist

英 [m?st] 美[m?st]

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復(fù)數(shù):?mists;第三人稱單數(shù):?mists;過(guò)去式:?misted;過(guò)去分詞:?misted;現(xiàn)在分詞:?misting;

mist 【迷失的】霧

mist 薄霧，水氣

來(lái)自古英語(yǔ)mist,薄霧，水氣，來(lái)自Proto-Germanic*mikhstaz,可能來(lái)自PIE*meus,水氣，濕的，詞源同moss,moist.

mist: mist: [OE] Mist is a member of quite a widespread Indo-European family of ‘mist’-words. Dutch and Swedish share mist, and among the non- Germanic languages Greek has omíkhlē, Lithuanian and Latvia migla, Serbo-Croat màgla, Polish mg?a, and Russian mgla, all meaning ‘mist’, besides Sanskrit mēghas ‘cloud’, which all point back to an Indo- European ancestor *migh-, *meigh-.
mist (n.): Old English mist "dimness (of eyesight), mist" (earliest in compounds, such as misthleoeu "misty cliffs," w?lmist "mist of death"), from Proto-Germanic *mikhstaz (cognates: Middle Low German mist, Dutch mist, Icelandic mistur, Norwegian and Swedish mist), perhaps from PIE *meigh- "to urinate" (cognates: Greek omikhle, Old Church Slavonic migla, Sanskrit mih, megha "cloud, mist;" see micturition).
Sometimes distinguished from fog, either as being less opaque or as consisting of drops large enough to have a perceptible downward motion. [OED]
Also in Old English in sense of "dimness of the eyes, either by illness or tears," and in figurative sense of "things that obscure mental vision."
mist (v.): Old English mistian "to become misty, to be or grow misty;" see mist (n.). Meaning "To cover with mist" is early 15c. Related: Misted; misting.