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.

mis-

1. Bad or wrong; badly or wrongly.

   Synonym: mal-

   misbehaviour; misspelling; to misbehave

   1. Incorrect; incorrectly.

      Synonyms: para-, dis-, dys-, mal-

      misidentification; to misidentify

2. Failed; in a manner resulting in failure (to do, complete or achieve something).

   Synonyms: dis-, dys-

   miscarriage (failed carriage of a pregnancy to term), to miscarry, to misacknowledge

3. Unintentional, accidental, mistaken; unintentionally, accidentally, mistakenly.

   Synonym: mal-

   Yes, I did "Buy now", but it was a misclick.

   I misclicked something on my computer, and now everything is in Hungarian!

4. False, falsely.

   Synonym: pseudo-

   misaccusation, to misaccuse

• miso-

• “mis-”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• -ism, IMS, IMs, ISM, MSI, SIM, Sim, ism, sim

Derived from English mis-.

• IPA^(key): [mɪs ]

mis-

1. mis- (erroneous)

   Synonym: dez-

   ‎mis- + ‎koncepce → ‎miskoncepce

From Old Norse mis-

mis-

1. mis-; bad, wrong, erroneous

• “mis-” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Middle Dutch mis-, from Old Dutch mis-, from Proto-West Germanic *missa-.^[1]

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mis-

1. mis-

• mis

• Afrikaans: mis-

Borrowed from Ido mis-.

• IPA^(key): /mis-/

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• Rhymes: -is-
• Syllabification: mis-

mis-

1. Wrong, erroneous.

   ‎mis- + ‎kompreni (“understand”) → ‎miskompreni (“misunderstand”)

   ‎mis- + ‎paroli (“to speak”) → ‎misparoli (“misspeak”)

• fuŝi (“to botch, bungle”)

• “mis”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “mis-”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026

From Old Norse mis-, from Proto-Germanic *missa- (“wrongly, badly”), from Proto-Indo-European *mitto (“mutual, reciprocal”), from Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂- (“to replace, switch, exchange, swap”).

mis-

1. mis-, wrong, erroneous

From Old Norse mis- (“mis-”), from Proto-Germanic *missa- (“wrongly, badly”), from Proto-Indo-European *mitto (“mutual, reciprocal”), from Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂- (“to replace, switch, exchange, swap”).

mis-

1. mis-, wrong, erroneous.

Borrowed from English mis-, from Proto-Germanic *missa-.

mis-

1. mis-, wrong, erroneous.

   uzar (“to use”) → misuzar (“to misuse”).

Probably a confluence of Latin minus and Old High German missa-.

• IPA^(key): /mis/
  • Hyphenation: mis-
• IPA^(key): /miz/ (before vowels and voiced consonants)

mis-

1. used to express negation; not, un-

   ‎mis- + ‎credere (“to believe”) → ‎miscredere (“to disbelieve”)

2. used to form pejoratives

   ‎mis- + ‎fatto (“fact; deed”) → ‎misfatto (“misdeed”)

• MSI

From Old Dutch mis-, from Proto-West Germanic *missa-.^[1]

mis-

1. mis-

• Dutch: mis-
  • Afrikaans: mis-

mis-

1. alternative form of mys-

From Proto-Germanic *missa-.^[1]

mis-

1. mis-

• Middle Dutch: mis-
  • Dutch: mis-
    • Afrikaans: mis-

From Proto-West Germanic *missa-, from Proto-Germanic *missa-. Akin to Old English missan (“to miss”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmis/ (as a nominal prefix)
• IPA^(key): /mis/ (as a verbal prefix)

mis-

1. bad, badly, wrong, wrongly
2. lack or failure

• Middle English: mys-, mes-, mis-
  • English: mis-
  • Scots: mis-

From Proto-Germanic *missa- (“wrongly, badly”), from Proto-Indo-European *mitto (“mutual, reciprocal”), from Proto-Indo-European *meyth₂- (“to replace, switch, exchange, swap”).

mis-

1. mis-, wrong, erroneous

• Icelandic: mis-
• Faroese: mis-
• Norwegian Bokmål: mis-
• Swedish: miss-
• Danish: mis-