meeting

meeting · noun¹

1. Old English · inherited frommēting
2. Middle English · inherited frommeeting
3. English todaymeeting

From Middle English meeting, meting, from Old English mēting, ġemēting (“meeting, assembly, association, society”), equivalent to meet + -ing. Cognate with West Frisian moeting (“meeting, encounter”), Dutch ontmoeting (“meeting, encounter”), Middle Low German mö̂tinge (“meeting”). Compare also German Low German Möte (“meeting, encounter”), Danish møde (“meeting, encounter”), Swedish möte (“meeting, encounter”), Icelandic mót (“meeting”). Related to moot.

meeting · verb²

1. Proto-Germanic · derived from*mōtijaną“to meet”
2. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*mōtijandz
3. Old English · inherited frommētende
4. Middle English · inherited frommetynge
5. English todaymeeting

From Middle English metynge, metinde, metand, from Old English mētende, *ġemētende, from Proto-Germanic *mōtijandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *mōtijaną (“to meet”), equivalent to meet + -ing.

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