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Where does “unmeeting” come from?

unmeeting (English) comes from English meeting, from Middle English meeting, from Old English mēting, from Old English mētan, from Proto-West Germanic mōtijan, from Proto-Germanic mōtijaną, from Proto-Germanic mōtą, from Proto-Indo-European meh₂d- — to be wet, to become wet; to meet, approach,...

unmeeting (English): An informal type of meeting without the rules,...

Definitions

  1. An informal type of meeting without the rules,...

Ancestry of “unmeeting”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishmeetingThe act of persons or things that meet; A...
2Middle Englishmeeting—
3Old Englishmēting—
4Old Englishmētanto meet, find, find out, fall in with, encounter,...
5Proto-West Germanicmōtijanto meet
6Proto-Germanicmōtijanąto meet, encounter
7Proto-Germanicmōtąmeeting
8Proto-Indo-Europeanmeh₂d-to be wet, to become wet; to meet, approach,...
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