mysty
Middle English
/ˈmistiː/, /ˈmistiː/
adj
Definitions
- Containing or obscured by mist; foggy, misty.
- figurative Difficult to understand; abstruse, mysterious.
Etymology
Inherited from Old English mist (darkness, dimness, mist) inherited from Proto-Germanic *mihstaz (mist, fog) inherited from Proto-Indo-European *migʰ-, *h₃meygʰ- (cloud, mist, fog, blink, flicker, be dark).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*h₃meygʰ-
Gloss
cloud, mist, fog, blink, flicker, be dark
Concept
Semantic Field
The physical world
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
雲, 曇
Emoji
☁️ ⛅️ ⛈️ 🌤️ 🌥️ 🌦️ 🌧️ 🌨️ 🌩️ 🌪️ 🌫️ 🌬️
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *h₃meygʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₃migʰstos Proto-Indo-European
- *h₃moygʰ-ós Proto-Indo-European
- *meygʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *migʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *mihstaz Proto-Germanic
- *mīganą Proto-Germanic
- mist Old English
- mest Middle English
- meyst Middle English
- mist Middle English
- miste Middle English
- misti Middle English
- misty Middle English
- myst Middle English
- myste Middle English
- mysti Middle English
- mistr Old Norse
- *migati Proto-Slavic
- *mist Old Dutch
- miseln Middle Low German
- *Hmaygʰás Proto-Indo-Iranian
- mij Northern Kurdish