gemot

• gemote, gemoot

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɡɪˈməʊt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɡɪˈmoʊt/

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.

• moot

ġe- +‎ mot

• IPA^(key): /jeˈmoːt/

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

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

• mōt n. — moot (gemot), society, assembly, court, council