Where does “meetings” come from?
Meetings derives from English meet, from Middle English meten, from Latin meta, from Proto-Indo-European med-, meaning to measure or go in the middle.
meetings (English): plural of meeting
Definitions
- plural of meeting
Ancestry of “meetings”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | meeting | The act of persons or things that meet; A... |
| 2 | Middle English | meeting | — |
| 3 | Old English | mēting | picture: drawing, painting |
| 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,... |