## Meanings
1. An event in which someone is hit or killed with a gun.
2. The sport or activity of firing a gun.
3. Of a pain, sudden and sharp, moving quickly through the body.

## Examples
- Police are investigating the shooting that happened last week.
- He enjoys shooting and fishing on the weekends.
- I often feel a shooting pain in my arm.

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: shoting
- Root: scotung
- Root: *skutungō

## Etymology
From Middle English shoting, schoting, from Old English scotung (“shooting”), from Proto-Germanic *skutungō, equivalent to shoot + -ing. Cognate with Dutch schieting, German Erschießung (“shooting”), Swedish skjutning (“shooting”).

## AI Etymology
Shooting is from Middle English shoting, schoting, from Old English scotung (“shooting”), from Proto-Germanic *skutungō, equivalent to shoot + -ing. Cognate with Dutch schieting, German Erschießung (“shooting”), Swedish skjutning (“shooting”). Important forms in the word's history include Middle English shoting, Old English scotung, Proto-Germanic *skutungō. In current use it includes senses such as An event in which someone is hit or killed with a gun and The sport or activity of firing a gun.

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- Emotions & Feelings

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