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meetEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
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.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗meetEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
From Middle English mete, imete, from Old English ġemǣte (“suitable, having the same measurements”), from the Proto-Germanic *gamētijaz, *mētiz (“reasonable; estimable”) (cognate with Dutch meten (“measure”), German gemäß (“suitable”) etc.), itself from collective prefix *ga- + Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure”).
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Chambers (1908)
1908- MeetEnglish · e-38538-8424
Meet, mēt, adj. fitting: qualified.—adv. Meet′ly.—n. Meet′ness. [A.S. ge-met—metan, to measure.]
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Meet, mēt, v.t. to come face to face: to encounter in conflict: to find or experience; to refute: be suitable to: satisfy, as by payment: to receive as a welcome.—v.i. to come together from different points: to assemble:
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MODERN ENTRY POINTS
WORD DOSSIERS
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Liebe
The German noun for love, inherited through Middle and Old High German and a Germanic abstract-noun formation distinct from the immediate noun ancestry of English love.
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bridegroom
A man about to be or recently married; remodeled from bridegome after the older man-word gome became opaque.
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figure
A shape, representation, symbol, number, person, or act of calculation; borrowed through French from Latin figūra, form or shape.
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guest
A person receiving hospitality, inherited through Old English from the Germanic branch of reconstructed *ghos-ti-.
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kind
An inherited English word whose noun history runs through nature, birth, class, and family while its adjective history runs through what is natural, native, fitting, and only later benevolent.
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lay
To put, place, or set down; an inherited causative verb in the same deep lie-and-lay family that produced law.
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ATTESTED / RECONSTRUCTED / BOUNDARY
HISTORICAL FORMS
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WHERE INTERPRETATION IS TESTED
CLAIMS & DISPUTES
SCHOLARLY DISPUTES / 12
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Was Feind borrowed from English fiend?
No borrowing is established. German Feind continues Old and Middle High German forms; English fiend independently continues Old English fēond. Both branches meet at reconstructed *fi(j)and-.
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Was German Hass borrowed from English hate?
No borrowing is established. German Hass continues Old High German haʒ; English hate continues an Old English noun-and-verb history. The branches meet at reconstructed Germanic material.
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Are bridegroom and human directly descended from one another?
No. Germanic *gumōn- and Latin homō reflect different earthling formations that meet only at *dhghem-.
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Does dough descend from lady or lady from dough?
Neither. The dough noun and lady’s kneading component follow separate Germanic formations that meet at *dheigh-.
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Does fiction descend from figure?
No. Latin fictiō and figūra are sibling formations in the fingere and *dheigh- family; neither English word is the parent of the other.
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Is English fiend descended from Gothic fijands?
No. English fiend continues Old English fēond; Gothic fijands is a collateral Germanic cousin. Both meet at reconstructed *fi(j)and-.
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Is English fiend descended from Gothic fijands?
No. English fiend continues Old English fēond; Gothic fijands is a collateral Germanic cousin. Both meet at the reconstructed *fi(j)and- formation.
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Was guest borrowed from Latin hostis?
No. English guest continues the Germanic branch; Latin hostis is a parallel cognate branch that meets it at *ghos-ti-.
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Was German hassen borrowed from English hate?
No borrowing is established. German hassen continues Old and Middle High German forms; English hate follows its own Old English branch. They meet only in reconstructed Germanic material.
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Were English love and hate once the same word?
No reviewed evidence connects English love directly to English hate. Middle Irish cais has an ambivalent love-and-hatred field inside a disputed comparison, but that is not a genealogical edge between the English words.
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Is kind simply kin plus a final d?
No. Kin continues Germanic *kunja- from a *-yo- formation, while kind continues noun *kundjaz and adjective *kundiz from a *-t- formation. They are deep cousins that meet at *ǵenh₁-, not one modern word built by adding d to the other.
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Does kindred descend from kind?
No. The first component is kin, continuing Old English cynn. Kind follows a separate Germanic *kund- and Indo-European *gn̥ə-t- formation; the words meet only at the deeper birth root.
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Kind is not kin with a d—and kindness did not begin as niceness.
Kind and kin descend through separate Germanic formations and meet only at the deeper birth root. The adjective first carries natural, native, fitting, and proper senses; benevolence becomes prominent through later semantic development.
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Lay and law are cousins; the other lays are strangers.
The set-down verb and law meet at *legh-. Lay the poem and lay meaning non-clerical arrived through different French, Latin, and Greek histories.
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Word and verb are cousins, not a borrowing pair.
English word descends through Germanic *wurdam and zero-grade *wr-dho-. English verb arrives through French from Latin verbum and the full-grade *wer-dho- branch. They meet only at reconstructed *werh1- “speak.”
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Tree and truth meet at firmness, not fantasy.
Tree follows the wood branch through Germanic *trewam; truth follows the fidelity branch through *treuwaz and *treuwithō. They meet at *deru- “firm, solid, steadfast; wood, tree.”
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Royal and right are deep cousins.
Royal follows Latin rēgālis and rēx through the king branch; right follows Germanic *rehtaz through the straight-and-correct branch. They meet at reconstructed *h₃reg-.
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Human does not descend from humus.
Latin humus and homō are sibling formations under *dhghem-; the English words meet only at reconstructed depth.
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Dough and lady are deep cousins.
Germanic *daigaz, dough, and *dīg-, the kneading branch inside lady, meet at *dheigh-, to form or build.
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Salary is truly salt's cousin—and the famous story is still false.
Salt and salary meet in the inherited salt family. Real kinship does not prove Roman soldiers received ordinary wages in literal salt.
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English taboo did not come from Māori tapu.
Māori tapu and English taboo meet deeper in the Oceanic family. English borrowed the Tongan reflex; Māori independently preserves sacredness, prohibition, restriction, and atua protection.
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Intelligent did not descend from English intelligence.
English intelligent is borrowed from a Latin present participle. Intelligence follows a sibling French and Latin abstract-noun route; the words meet deeper than modern English.
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Legal is not descended from English law.
The meanings meet; the family trees do not. legal is Latin, while law is Germanic and Scandinavian.
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BOOKS / DICTIONARIES / ARTICLES / DATABASES
SOURCES
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FIRST USES & HISTORICAL OBJECTS
ATTESTATION WITNESSES
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