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Audio Etymologies of the Day
"Mist" descends from Proto-Indo-European *h₃migʰ- [ŏmigʱ], something like this (listen): 
http://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/mist-from-PIE-h3migh.wav
The same root also descended into Persian مه meh:http://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/PIE-h3migh-to-Persian-meh.wav
The suffixed form *h₃migʰ-leh₂ [ŏmigʱlɐ:] developed into Modern Greek ομίχλη omikhli:http://www.ancientsounds.net/eastern-origins/PIE-h3migh-to-ModernGreek-omixli.wav
@linguistics #audio #etymology #phonetics #EnglishLanguage #ProtoIndoEuropean #Persian #Greek
For those who cannot read #Persian, the top caption reads:
"Mist in the Amazon jungle."
The word مه also translates to May, the 5th month in the #Gregorian #calendar however, it is due to being borrowed from #French "mai."
Spoiler alert: All Gregorian months in Persian are borrowed from French.