The morpho-lexical type Mist appears throughout the Alemannic and Bavarian Alpine regions. The basic meaning is 'manure' in the sense of 'excrement mixed with straw or hay' (cf. Duden under Mist) or 'cow dung'. The linguistic atlases (cf. Idiotikon under Mist, DWB under Mist) offer a broader range of meanings: Mist has not only the meanings 'cow dung', but also 'human as well as animal excrement', 'decaying/rotting', 'manure' and 'dung heap'. The present lexeme Mist has equivalents in ags. meohx/meox for 'refuse, rubble' (cf.DWB under dung) and in Gothic.