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Where does “meeting” come from?

Meeting derives from the Middle English verb meten, from Latin meta, ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root med- meaning to measure or consider.

meeting (English): The act of persons or things that meet; A...

Definitions

  1. The act of persons or things that meet; A...

Ancestry of “meeting”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishmeeting—
2Old Englishmēting—
3Old Englishmētanto meet, find, find out, fall in with, encounter,...
4Proto-West Germanicmōtijanto meet
5Proto-Germanicmōtijanąto meet, encounter
6Proto-Germanicmōtąmeeting
7Proto-Indo-Europeanmeh₂d-to be wet, to become wet; to meet, approach,...

Words derived from “meeting”

  • meetings
  • meetinghouse
  • premeeting
  • postmeeting
  • nonmeeting
  • midmeeting
  • mismeeting
  • unmeeting
  • merrymeeting
  • meetingless
  • meetingitis
  • submeeting
  • telemeeting
  • meetinglike
  • countermeeting
  • mitin
  • meeting
  • митинг
  • meetings
  • meeting
  • Meeting
  • miitinki
  • MTG
  • miting
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