Mis-
Mis- (mis-)
[In words of Teutonic origin, from Anglo-Saxon mis-; akin to Dutch mis-, German miss-, Old High German missa-, missi-, Icelandic & Danish mis-, Swedish miss-, Gothic missa-; orig., a p. p. from the root of German meiden to shun, Old High German mīdan, Anglo-Saxon mīean (r100. Compare Miss to fail of). In words from the French, from Old French mes-, French mé-, mes-, from Latin 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.
Mis (mis) , adjective and adverb
[See Amiss.]
Wrong; amiss. [Obsolete]
To correcten that [which] is mis.