mistel

From Middle Dutch mistel, from Old Dutch *mistil, from Proto-West Germanic *mistil, from Proto-Germanic *mistilaz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪs.təl/

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mistel m (plural mistels, diminutive misteltje n)

1. (archaic) synonym of maretak (“mistletoe, Viscum album”)

• mistell, mystil, mystill, mystyl

Inherited from Old English mistel, from Proto-West Germanic *mistil, from Proto-Germanic *mistilaz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmistəl/

mistel (uncountable)

1. (rare) mistletoe (Viscum album)

   Synonym: mistelto

• mistelto

• English: mistle
• Scots: misle

• “mistel, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *mistil, from Proto-Germanic *mistilaz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmis.tel/

mistel m

1. mistletoe

• This term is used to gloss Latin ōcimum, conventionally translated as 'basil', so it was traditionally thought to bear that meaning too. However, Latin ōcimum does not necessarily mean "basil". making this identification groundless, especially since basil is quite dissimilar to mistletoe.

• mistellām
• misteltān

• Middle English: mistel, mistell, mystil, mystill, mystyl
  • English: mistle
  • Scots: misle

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “mistel”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

From Old Norse mistilteinn

mistel c

1. mistletoe

• mistel in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• mistel in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• mistel in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)