myst

From Old English mist (“mist; darkness; dimness (of eyesight)”), from Proto-Germanic *mihstaz (“mist, fog”), from Proto-Indo-European *migʰ-, *migʰ-lo- (“drizzle, fog”), from Proto-Indo-European *meygʰ- (“to flicker, blink, be dark; cloud, mist”).

• myste, mist, miste, meyst, mest

• IPA^(key): /mist/

myst (plural mystes)

1. Weather characterized by the suspension of water droplets in the air; mist, fog.
2. Steam, vapour.
3. A plume of smoke.
4. Dimness in vision.
5. (figuratively) Anything that darkens or obscures the mind or spirit.

• mysty

• English: mist
• Scots: mist

• “mist n. (1)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 7 April 2018.

From mysty (“symbolic, figurative”).

• myste, mist, miste

• IPA^(key): /mist/

myst (uncountable)

1. (religion) Spiritual matters which elude understanding; mysteries.

• in myst

• mysty
• mystiliche
• mystyke
• mystecall
• mystykly

• “mist n. (2)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 7 April 2018.

myst

1. supine of mysa.