mis-
English
prefix
Definitions
- bad or wrong; badly or wrongly
- lack or failure
- in error
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English mis- inherited from Old English mis- (mis-) inherited from Proto-Germanic *missa- (badly, wrongly, astay, mis-, amiss, divergent) derived from Proto-Indo-European *mitto (reciprocal, mutual), *mey-, *meyth₂- (exchange, go past, swap, change, switch, replace, change places).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*mey-, *meyth₂-
Gloss
exchange, go past, swap, change, switch, replace, change places
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- -ance English
- apply English
- misappliance English
- mittere Latin
- mittēre, mittō Latin
- remissiō Latin
- miss- German
- mis- Dutch, Flemish
- misvatten Dutch, Flemish
- més- French
- *mey- Proto-Indo-European
- *mey-, *meyth₂- Proto-Indo-European
- *meyt- Proto-Indo-European
- *mitto Proto-Indo-European
- *missa- Proto-Germanic
- mis- Old English
- misbyrd Old English
- mis- Middle English
- mí- Irish
- mis- Old Norse
- mis- Czech
- mes- Old French
- mis- Esperanto
- mis- Icelandic
- mismunur Icelandic
- mis- Middle Dutch
- missa- Old High German
- mis- Ido
- mí- Old Irish
- mì- Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- mis- Middle High German
- mes- Middle French
- 𐌼𐌹𐍃𐍃𐌰- Gothic
- mis- Old Dutch
- mes- Occitan
- *mis- Frankish
- *missa- Frankish