Where does “meetinghouse” come from?
Meetinghouse derives from English meet and English house, built on Middle English -en (verbal suffix) and Middle English -en (nominal suffix), tracing through Latin meta and Proto-Indo-European med- meaning to measure or consider.
meetinghouse (English): A building where people meet for a purpose; A...
Definitions
- A building where people meet for a purpose; A...
Ancestry of “meetinghouse”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | meeting | The act of persons or things that meet; A... |
| 2 | Middle English | meeting | — |
| 3 | Old English | mēting | — |
| 4 | Old English | mētan | to meet, find, find out, fall in with, encounter,... |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | mōtijan | to meet |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | mōtijaną | to meet, encounter |
| 7 | Proto-Germanic | mōtą | meeting |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | meh₂d- | to be wet, to become wet; to meet, approach,... |