Meeting
Old English mētan ‘come upon’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch moeten, also to moot.
wiktionary
From Middle English meeting, meting, from Old English mēting, ġemēting(“meeting, assembly, association, society”), equivalent to meet + -ing. Cognate with West Frisian moeting(“meeting, encounter”), Dutch ontmoeting(“meeting, encounter”). Compare also German Low German Möte(“meeting, encounter”), Danish møde(“meeting, encounter”), Swedish möte(“meeting, encounter”), Icelandic mót(“meeting”). Related to moot.
From Middle English metynge, metinde, metand, from Old English mētende, *ġemētende, from Proto-Germanic *mōtijandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *mōtijaną(“to meet”), equivalent to meet + -ing.
etymonline
meeting (n.)
"an action of coming together," Old English meting "assembly," verbal noun from meet (v.). Specific meaning "gathering of people for discussion, etc." is from 1510s. In 17c., in England and Ireland it was applied generally to worship assemblies of nonconformists, but this now is retained mostly by Quakers. In the early U.S., especially in rural districts, it was applied to any assemblage for religious worship.
