mistake

Bedeutung (Englisch)

Frequenz

A2
Ausgesprochen als (IPA)
/mɪˈsteɪk/
Etymologie (Englisch)

In summary

From Middle English mistaken, from Old Norse mistaka (“to take in error, to miscarry”); equivalent to mis- + take. Cognate with Icelandic mistaka (“to mistake”), Swedish missta (“to mistake”) (before apocope misstaga). The noun, which replaced earlier mistaking, is derived from the verb.

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