Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To come face to face with by accident; to encounter. · To come face to face with someone by arrangement. · To get acquainted with someone. · To gather for a formal or social discussion; to hold a meeting.
A sports competition, especially for track and field or swimming. · A gathering of riders, horses and hounds for foxhunting; a field meet for hunting. · A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross. · A meeting.
From Middle English meten, from Old English mētan (“to meet, find, encounter”), from Proto-West Germanic *mōtijan (“to meet”), from Proto-Germanic *mōtijaną (“to meet”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“to come, meet”). Cognates Cognate with Scots met, mete, meit (“to meet”), North Frisian meet, mätje, möt (“to meet”), West Frisian mette, moetsje (“to meet”), Dutch ontmoeten (“to meet”), Low German möten (“to meet”), Danish møde (“to meet”), Elfdalian my̨öt (“to meet”), Faroese møta (“to meet”), Icelandic mæta (“to meet”), Norwegian Bokmål møte (“to meet”), Norwegian Nynorsk møta, møte (“to meet”), Swedish möta (“to meet”). Related to moot.
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- Root classification mention*meh₂d- (meet)ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionmetenenm
- Inherited-form mentionmētanang
- Inherited-form mention*mōtijangmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*mōtijanągem-pro
- Derivation mention*meh₂d-ine-pro · to come, meet
- Cognate mentionmetsco
- Cognate mentionmeetfrr
- Cognate mentionmettefy
- Cognate mentionontmoetennl · to meet
- Cognate mentionmötennds · to meet
- Cognate mentionmødeda · to meet
- Cognate mentionmy̨ötovd · to meet
- Cognate mentionmøtafo · to meet
- Cognate mentionmætais · to meet
- Cognate mentionmøtenb · to meet
- Cognate mentionmøtann
- Cognate mentionmötasv · to meet
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