netting

netting · noun¹

1. Proto-Germanic*natją
2. Proto-West Germanic*nati
3. Old Englishnett
4. Middle Englishnet
5. Englishnet
6. English todaynetting

From net + -ing.

netting · noun²

1. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*nattjan“to wet”
2. Old English · inherited from*nettan“to wet”
3. Proto-West Germanic · derived from*nattjan
4. Old Saxon · derived from*nettian
5. Middle Low German · derived fromnette“wetness, urine”
6. Middle Low German · derived fromnattinge“wetness”
7. Middle English · inherited fromnetting“urine”
8. English todaynetting

From Middle English netting (“urine”). Further etymology unclear. Perhaps borrowed from Middle Low German nattinge (“wetness”), or derived from Middle Low German nette (“wetness, urine”), netten (“to wet, urinate”), from Old Saxon *nettian, from Proto-West Germanic *nattjan. Alternatively, perhaps from an unrecorded Old English *nettan (“to wet”), from Proto-West Germanic *nattjan (“to wet”), related to Middle Low German netten (“to wet, urinate”), Dutch netten (“to wet”), German nässen (“to wet”), all related to the above.

netting · verb³

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.