issuing

The verb 'issue' entered English in the late 14th century from Old French 'issir', 'eissir', meaning "to go out, exit, flow out," which itself derived from Latin 'exire', a combination of 'ex-' ("out") and 'ire' ("to go"). The original physical sense of "a flowing out" or "an exit" evolved metaphorically. By the 16th century, it developed the administrative and legal meanings of "to send forth officially" or "to put into circulation," such as issuing orders, stamps, or banknotes. Thus, the modern abstract sense of formally releasing or distributing something retains the core logic of causing something to "go out" from an authority.

The word 'issuing' is the present participle/gerund form of the verb 'issue'. It is not productively segmented into smaller, meaningful morphemes in modern English. The core verb 'issue' is a simplex unit.