Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Mis"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mis \Mis\, a. & adv. [See {Amiss}.]
Wrong; amiss. [Obs.] ``To correcten that [which] is mis.''
--Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mis- \Mis-\ [In words of Teutonic origin, fr. AS. mis-; akin to
D. mis-, G. miss-, OHG. missa-, missi-, Icel. & Dan. mis-,
Sw. miss-, Goth. missa-; orig., a p. p. from the root of G.
meiden to shun, OHG. m[=i]dan, AS. m[=i]?an (????. Cf. {Miss}
to fail of). In words from the French, fr. OF. mes-, F.
m['e]-, mes-, fr. L. minus less (see {Minus}). In present
usage these two prefixes are commonly confounded.]
A prefix used adjectively and adverbially in the sense of
amiss, wrong, ill, wrongly, unsuitably; as, misdeed, mislead,
mischief, miscreant.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
mis
adj : (prefix) bad or erroneous or lack of; "the prefix `mis'
means bad in `misdeeds', erroneous in `misunderstand',
and lacking in `mistrust'"
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