gemot
التعريفات والمعاني
== English ==
=== Alternative forms ===
gemote, gemoot
=== Etymology ===
Learned borrowing from Old English ġemōt (“meeting, council, moot, encounter”).
=== Pronunciation ===
(Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɡɪˈməʊt/
(General American) IPA(key): /ɡɪˈmoʊt/
=== Noun ===
gemot (plural gemots)
(historical) A (legislative or judicial) assembly in Anglo-Saxon England.
(by extension, rare) Any assembly.
==== Related terms ====
moot
witenagemot
== Old English ==
=== Etymology ===
From ġe- + *mōt, the latter from Proto-Germanic *mōtą (“meeting”).
=== Pronunciation ===
IPA(key): /jeˈmoːt/
=== Noun ===
ġemōt n
meeting (encounter, assembly, or confluence)
court or judicial assembly
==== Declension ====
Strong a-stem:
==== Synonyms ====
mēting
þing
==== Derived terms ====
==== Descendants ====
Middle English: mōt, ȝemōt
English: moot
Scots: mut, mote
=== References ===
Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “gemot”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.