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Where does “meet” come from?

meet (Latin) comes from Latin meo, from Latin meus, from Proto-Italic meos — my.

meet (Latin): third-person singular present active subjunctive...

Definitions

  1. third-person singular present active subjunctive...

Ancestry of “meet”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatinmeoI go along, pass or traverse; dative masculine...
2Latinmeusmy, mine
3Proto-Italicmeosmy
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