miss
English
/mɪs/
verb
Definitions
- (ambitransitive) To fail to hit.
- (transitive) To fail to achieve or attain.
- (transitive) To avoid; to escape.
- (transitive) To become aware of the loss or absence of; to feel the want or need of, sometimes with regret.
- (transitive) To fail to understand; to have a shortcoming of perception; overlook.
- (transitive) To fail to attend.
- (transitive) To be late for something (a means of transportation, a deadline, etc.).
- (transitive) To be wanting; to lack something that should be present.
- (poker) To fail to help the hand of a player.
- (sports) To fail to score (a goal).
- (intransitive) To go wrong; to err.
- (intransitive) To be absent, deficient, or wanting.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English missen inherited from Old English missan (miss, escape the notice of a person) inherited from Proto-Germanic *missijaną (go wrong, miss, fail) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *meyt- (switch, exchange, replace, swap, change, trade).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*meyt-
Gloss
switch, exchange, replace, swap, change, trade
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
商, 貿
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- air English
- airmiss English
- amiss English
- amissness English
- missable English
- misser English
- missest English
- misseth English
- misshood English
- missie English
- missish English
- missishly English
- missishness English
- missout English
- missy English
- missyish English
- out English
- school English
- schoolmiss English
- schoolmissish English
- schoolmissy English
- unmissable English
- misseys Finnish
- missi Finnish
- missikilpailu Finnish
- missikisa Finnish
- missivuosi Finnish
- missiys Finnish
- missen German
- vermissen German
- mispunt Dutch, Flemish
- miss Dutch, Flemish
- missen Dutch, Flemish
- vermissen Dutch, Flemish
- miss Spanish, Castilian
- *mey- Proto-Indo-European
- *meyt- Proto-Indo-European
- *mitto Proto-Indo-European
- *missijaną Proto-Germanic
- *mīþaną Proto-Germanic
- missa Swedish
- ミスる Japanese
- mista Norwegian Nynorsk
- missan Old English
- missen Middle English
- missa Old Norse
- miste Danish
- miss Catalan, Valencian
- missa Icelandic
- missen Middle Dutch
- missan Old High German
- missen Old High German
- messa Old Irish
- mis Afrikaans
- miosa Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- missen Middle High German
- mëssen Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- vermëssen Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- *missen Old Dutch
- 婂媤 Chinese
- mmisja Maltese
- Mihi Maori
- mistæ Old Danish