Where did the word misjudge come from?
Score: 4.7/5 (26 votes) prefix of Germanic origin affixed to nouns and verbs and meaning "bad, wrong," from Old English mis-, from Proto-Germanic *missa- "divergent, astray" (source also of Old Frisian and Old Saxon. Productive as word-forming element in Old English (as in mislæran "to give bad advi...