gemot

English

Alternative forms

• gemote, gemoot

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old English ġemōt (“meeting, council, moot, encounter”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɪˈməʊt/
• IPA^(key): /ɡɪˈmoʊt/

Noun

gemot (plural gemots)

1. (historical) A (legislative or judicial) assembly in Anglo-Saxon England.
   • 1849, John Mitchell Kemble, The Saxons in England: A History:

     a.d. 978. — In this year was held the celebrated gemot at Calne in Wiltshire, when the floor gave way […]

   • 1895, Geoff Horton, The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints:

     Each division had a court subordinate to those that were superior, the highest in each shire being the shire-gemot, or folck-mote, […]

2. (by extension, rare) Any assembly.
   • 1984, David Dvorkin, The Trellisane Confrontation:

     I have spoken to Veedron, a member of one of Trellisane's many gemots, or ruling councils.

Related terms

• moot

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Old English

Etymology

ġe- +‎ mōt

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jeˈmoːt/

Noun

ġemōt n (nominative plural gemōt)

1. meeting, council, moot, encounter

   • Hīg hæfdon mycel ġemōt. ― They held a great council.
   • Herōdes ġewende tō Cesaream, and ðǣr hæfde gemōt wið Tyrum and Sidoniscum. ― Herod went to Caesar, and then held a meeting with Tyrus and Sidoniscus

Derived terms

• burhġemōt (“town's meeting”)
• cēapunggemōt (“market,”)
• folcġemōt, folcmōt (“meeting of the people of a town or district, folkmoot”)
• gūþġemōt (“battle, combat”)
• handġemōt (“battle”)
• hundredġemōt (“hundred-moot”)
• mǣgġemōt (“meeting of kinsmen”)
• mearcgemot (“court for settling boundaries of properties”)
• scīrġemōt (“shire-moot”)
• tornġemōt (“battle”)
• witena ġemōt (“meeting of the wise men (wita), national council.”)

Related terms

• mōt (“moot (gemot), society, assembly, court, council”)