missie

miss +‎ -ie

missie (plural missies)

1. (informal) A young woman; miss.
   • An' that's why they took me, missie, that's why they took me.'

     Perspectives: A Course in Narrative Comprehension and Composition By Cecil Gray

• Issime

From Dutch missie, from French mission, Old French mission, from Latin missiō.

missie (plural missies)

1. mission

From French mission (“a sending, a mission”), Old French mission (“expense”), from Latin missiō (“a sending, sending away, dispatching, discharging, release, remission, cessation”), from mittō (“to send”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪ.si/

• missie

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• Hyphenation: mis‧sie

missie f (plural missies or missiën, diminutive missietje n)

1. mission, task
2. (Roman Catholicism) mission (proselytisation)

   Synonym: zending

• Afrikaans: missie