Where does “mitingist” come from?
mitingist (Romanian) comes from Romanian miting, from French meeting, from English meeting, from Middle English meeting, from Old English mēting, from Old English mētan, from Proto-West Germanic mōtijan, from Proto-Germanic mōtijaną — to be wet, to become wet; to meet, approach,...
mitingist (Romanian): a person who spends a lot of time in public protests
Definitions
- a person who spends a lot of time in public protests
Ancestry of “mitingist”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | miting | large, public gathering not used in other senses of "meeting" |
| 2 | French | meeting | large, public gathering |
| 3 | English | meeting | The act of persons or things that meet; A... |
| 4 | Middle English | meeting | — |
| 5 | Old English | mēting | picture: drawing, painting |
| 6 | Old English | mētan | to meet, find, find out, fall in with, encounter,... |
| 7 | Proto-West Germanic | mōtijan | to meet |
| 8 | Proto-Germanic | mōtijaną | to meet, encounter |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | mōtą | meeting |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | meh₂d- | to be wet, to become wet; to meet, approach,... |