mist

Значение (Английский)

1. Water or other liquid finely suspended in air. (Compare fog, haze.)
2. A layer of fine droplets or particles.
3. Anything that dims, darkens, or hinders vision.

fog

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light rain

obnubilate

fine spray

smoke shell

thin rain

mistura

ground fog

smoky fog

ligh fog

light frost

drizzling rain

Частота

Произносится как (IPA)

/mɪst/

The noun is from Middle English mist, from Old English mist (“mist; darkness; dimness (of eyesight)”), from Proto-Germanic *mihstaz (“mist, fog”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃migʰstos, from the root *h₃meygʰ- (“cloud, fog, drizzle”). Cognate with Scots mist (“mist, fog”), West Frisian mist (“mist”), Dutch mist (“mist”), Swedish mist (“mist, fog”), Icelandic mistur (“mist”), West Frisian miegelje (“to drizzle”), Dutch dialectal miggelen, miegelen (“to drizzle”), Lithuanian miglà (“fog”), Sanskrit मेघ (megha, “cloud”), Russian мгла (mgla, “fog, haze”). The verb is from Middle English misten, from Old English mistian.