gemot
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Old English ġemōt (“meeting, council, moot, encounter”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɡɪˈməʊt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ɡɪˈmoʊt/
Noun edit
gemot (plural gemots)
- (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, […]
- (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 edit
Old English edit
Etymology edit
From ġe- + *mōt, the latter from Proto-Germanic *mōtą (“meeting”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ġemōt n
Declension edit
Declension of gemot (strong a-stem)
Synonyms edit
Derived terms edit
- burgġemōt (“town meeting”)
- ċēapunggemōt (“market”)
- folcġemōt (“public meeting”)
- ġemōtstōw (“meeting place”)
- gūþġemōt (“battle, combat”)
- handġemōt (“battle”)
- hundredġemōt (“hundred-moot”)
- mǣġġemōt (“meeting of kinsmen”)
- mearcġemōt (“court for settling boundaries of properties”)
- sċīrġemōt (“county meeting”)
- tornġemōt (“battle”)
- witena ġemōt (“king's court”)