English Explanatory Dictionary

mis-

English dictionary entry

Meanings

prefix
  1. Bad or wrong; badly or wrongly.
  2. Incorrect; incorrectly.
  3. Failed; in a manner resulting in failure (to do, complete or achieve something).
  4. Unintentional, accidental, mistaken; unintentionally, accidentally, mistakenly.
  5. False, falsely.

Word forms

mis-

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.

Synonyms

mal- para- dis- dys- pseudo-

Related words

miso-

Translations

Czech: dez- Czech: mis- Danish: mis- Dutch: mis- Esperanto: fi- French: mé- French: més- German: miss- German: ver- Hungarian: félre- Hungarian: el- Hungarian: tév- Icelandic: mis- Japanese: 誤- Japanese: -ミス Latin: aliter Middle English: mys- Polish: nie- Russian: о- Russian: обо- Spanish: mal- Swedish: miss- Yola: miz-
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