miste
Danish
Etymology
From Old Danish mistæ, from Old Norse missa, from Proto-Germanic *missijaną, cognate with Swedish mista, English miss, German missen. Doublet of misse (from English). The Danish form has -t- from the past tense and past participle (older miste and mist).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mestə/, [ˈmesd̥ə]
Conjugation
References
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɪs.tə/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: mis‧te
- Rhymes: -ɪstə
- Homophone: Miste
Verb
miste
- inflection of missen:
- singular past indicative
- (dated or formal) singular past subjunctive
- (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of misten
Irish
Alternative forms
- meisde, meiste, misde (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmʲɪʃtʲə/
Adjective
miste (predicative only)
- of importance, that matters, that one cares about, that one minds about
- Is miste domsa é. ― It matters to me.
- Diabhal ar miste liom faoi. ― I don’t care a straw about it.
- Mura miste leat ― If you don't mind
- harmful (after a negative or in a question)
- Ní miste a rá go bhfuil suim aige. ― It’s no harm to say he’s interested./It’s safe to say he’s interested.
- Cárbh mhiste dá dtigeadh sé féinig? ― What harm if only he came?
Usage notes
Questions beginning Ar mhiste... can be idiomatically translated into English with "Would it be all right...", but note that the polarity of the answer is reversed in English and Irish. The Irish equivalent of "Yes, [it would be all right]" is Ní miste, and the equivalent of "No, [it would not be all right]" is Is miste. Questions beginning An miste leat... "Do you mind..." are answered with the same polarity as in English: Ní miste "No, [I don't mind]"; Is miste "Yes, [I do mind]".
Mutation
Irish mutation | ||
---|---|---|
Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
miste | mhiste | not applicable |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “miste”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 52
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmi.ste/
- Rhymes: -iste
- Hyphenation: mì‧ste
Latin
Middle English
Norwegian Bokmål
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [mɪstə]
References
- “miste” in The Bokmål Dictionary.