meeting

The word 'meeting' is a straightforward nominalization of the verb 'meet'. Its core, 'meet', originates from the Proto-Germanic mōtijaną, meaning "to encounter," which itself derives from the Proto-Indo-European root mod-, meaning "to assemble, come together." The addition of the '-ing' suffix, a common Germanic practice, transforms the action of encountering into the concrete event or instance of that encounter. Thus, the literal logic of "the act of coming together" has remained transparent from its Old English form 'gemēting' to the modern abstract noun denoting any assembly, planned or accidental.

Structure: meet (to come together) + ing (noun-forming suffix) - meet: From Old English 'mētan' (to meet, find, encounter). A Germanic root functioning as the core verb. - ing: From Old English '-ung', '-ing', a suffix used to form nouns from verbs, indicating an action, process, or its result.