mix

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To combine two or more things so they become one.

   Mix the eggs and milk with the flour until smooth.

2. 2
   verb

   To add one thing to another and stir or shake them together.

   Mix some water into the drink to make it less sweet.

3. 3
   noun

   A combination of different things.

   The class was an interesting mix of people from many countries.

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Simplified etymology

Mix comes ultimately from Latin mixtus, which became Old French mixte. English speakers interpreted the borrowed form as though it were the past participle “mixed” and formed the new verb mix from it. It may also be ultimately related to mash.

From Middle English mixen (attested in past tense as mixed, myxyd), from Old English *mixian, miscian, from Proto-West Germanic *miskijan, from Proto-Germanic *miskijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *miḱ-sḱé-ti, from *meyǵ-, *meyḱ- (“to mix”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian miskje (“to mix, blend”), Middle Dutch mischen (“to mix”), Low German misken, mischen (“to mix”), Old High German miskian, miskēn (“to mix”) (German mischen), Welsh mysgu (“to mix”), Latin misceō (“mix”), Ancient Greek μῑ́γνῡμῐ (mī́gnūmĭ, “to mix”), Old Church Slavonic мѣсити (měsiti, “to mix”), Lithuanian mišti and maišyti (“…

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