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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *mey-? Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂-der. Proto-Germanic *missaz Proto-Germanic *missa- Proto-West Germanic *missa- Old English mis- Middle English mys- English mis- From Middle English mys-, mis-, from Old English mis- (“mis-”), from Proto-West Germanic *missa-, from Proto-Germanic *missa- (“wrongly, badly, mis-”), from the adjective *missaz (whence also miss), from Proto-Indo-European *mitˢtós (“mutual, reciprocal”), from *meyt(h₂)- (“to replace, switch, exchange, swap”), extended from the root *mey- (“to change”). Cognate with Scots mis- (“mis-”), Dutch mis- (“mis-”), German miss-, mis- (“mis-”), Danish mis- (“mis-”), Swedish miss- (“mis-”), Icelandic mis- (“mis-”). Compare also French més-, mé- (“mis-”), from Old French mes- (“mis-”), from Frankish *mis-, *missa- (“mis-”), from the same Proto-Germanic source above.

Meanings

  1. (morpheme) Bad or wrong; badly or wrongly.
    • misbehaviour; misspelling; to misbehave
  2. (morpheme) Bad or wrong; badly or wrongly. ▸ Incorrect; incorrectly.
    • misidentification; to misidentify
  3. (morpheme) Failed; in a manner resulting in failure (to do, complete or achieve something).
    • miscarriage (failed carriage of a pregnancy to term), to miscarry, to misacknowledge
  4. (morpheme) Unintentional, accidental, mistaken; unintentionally, accidentally, mistakenly.
    • Yes, I did "Buy now", but it was a misclick.
    • I misclicked something on my computer, and now everything is in Hungarian!
  5. (morpheme) False, falsely.
    • misaccusation, to misaccuse

Relateds

miso-

Synonyms

dis- · para- · mal- · dys- · mal- · dys- · pseudo- · mal- · dis-

Translations (25)

fr mé- (bad or wrong; badly or wrongly) · yol miz- (bad or wrong; badly or wrongly) · la aliter (bad or wrong; badly or wrongly) · de ver- (bad or wrong; badly or wrongly) · cs mis- (bad or wrong; badly or wrongly) · ru обо- (bad or wrong; badly or wrongly) · cs dez- (bad or wrong; badly or wrongly) · el κακο- (bad or wrong; badly or wrongly) · fr més- (bad or wrong; badly or wrongly) · ja -ミス (bad or wrong; badly or wrongly) · enm mys- (bad or wrong; badly or wrongly) · el κατα- (bad or wrong; badly or wrongly) · hu félre- (bad or wrong; badly or wrongly) · de miss- (bad or wrong; badly or wrongly) · eo fi- (bad or wrong; badly or wrongly) · is mis- (bad or wrong; badly or wrongly) · ja 誤- (bad or wrong; badly or wrongly) · ru о- (bad or wrong; badly or wrongly) · pl nie- (bad or wrong; badly or wrongly) · es mal- (bad or wrong; badly or wrongly) · da mis- (bad or wrong; badly or wrongly) · hu el- (bad or wrong; badly or wrongly) · nl mis- (bad or wrong; badly or wrongly) · sv miss- (bad or wrong; badly or wrongly) · hu tév- (bad or wrong; badly or wrongly)