[see bottom for Everything]* Interestingly: "thing" - I always
   wanted to know that one and now I do:

   A meeting/ assembly = thing = meeting/assembly. That is
   absolutely fascinating to me right now. A "thing" is a meeting /
   assembly / discussion / council.
   Councils deliberate, telling stories to one another, comparing
   one story with another story, with the hope of coming to an
   agreement or at least a mutual understanding.

   But it is an understanding that is "in process". There's no
   definitive answer.

   To understand Every Thing, means to understand Process.

   To understand Process, you must know the context (with text -
   the stuff unspoken and assumed or the surrounding environment) -
   because processes aren't things without having stuff to process
   with/for/to.

   sorry - thinking aloud. new concept for me and I'm processing it
   here smile emoticon How I understand everything:
   everything (n.) late 14c., from every + thing.

   every (adj.)
   early 13c., contraction of Old English *fre *lc "each of a
   group," literally "ever each" (Chaucer's everich), from each
   with ever added for emphasis. The word still is felt to want
   emphasis; as in Modern English every last ..., every single ...,
   etc.

   Also a pronoun to Chaucer, Shakespeare, Spenser. Compare
   everybody, everything, etc. The word everywhen is attested from
   1843 but never caught on; neither did everyhow (1837). Slang
   phrase every Tom, Dick, and Harry "every man, everyone" dates
   from at least 1734, from common English given names.

   thing (n.)
   Old English *ing "meeting, assembly, council, discussion," later
   "entity, being, matter" (subject of deliberation in an
   assembly), also "act, deed, event, material object, body, being,
   creature," from Proto-Germanic *thingam "assembly" (cognates:
   Old Frisian thing "assembly, council, suit, matter, thing,"
   Middle Dutch dinc "court-day, suit, plea, concern, affair,
   thing," Dutch ding "thing," Old High German ding "public
   assembly for judgment and business, lawsuit," German Ding
   "affair, matter, thing," Old Norse *ing "public assembly"). The
   Germanic word is perhaps literally "appointed time," from a PIE
   *tenk- (1), from root *ten- "stretch," perhaps on notion of
   "stretch of time for a meeting or assembly."

   The sense "meeting, assembly" did not survive Old English. For
   sense evolution, compare French chose, Spanish cosa "thing,"
   from Latin causa "judicial process, lawsuit, case;" Latin res
   "affair, thing," also "case at law, cause." Old sense is
   preserved in second element of hustings and in Icelandic
   Althing, the nation's general assembly.

   Of persons, often pityingly, from late 13c. Used colloquially
   since c. 1600 to indicate things the speaker can't name at the
   moment, often with various meaningless suffixes (see
   thingamajig). Things "personal possessions" is from c. 1300. The
   thing "what's stylish or fashionable" is recorded from 1762.
   Phrase do your thing "follow your particular predilection,"
   though associated with hippie-speak of 1960s is attested from
   1841.