Etymograph

English

gemot

Gemot comes from Old English ġemōt ‘meeting, council, moot, encounter’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d-.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*meh₂d-1‘to encounter, come’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*mōtą2‘meeting’reconstructed
  3. Old Englishc. 450–1150*mōt2‘meeting’reconstructed
  4. Old Englishc. 450–1150ġemōt3‘meeting, council, moot, encounter’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1849gemot3

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Proto-Germanic *mōtą
  2. 2 Wiktionary, Old English gemot
  3. 3 Wiktionary, English gemot
  4. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1849, John Mitchell Kemble: “a.d. 978. — In this year was held the…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*meh₂d-Wiktionary, Proto-Germanic *mōtą‘to encounter, come’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*mōtąWiktionary, Old English gemot‘meeting’reconstructed
  3. Old Englishc. 450–1150*mōtWiktionary, Old English gemot‘meeting’reconstructed
  4. Old Englishc. 450–1150ġemōtWiktionary, English gemot‘meeting, council, moot, encounter’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1849gemotWiktionary, English gemot. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1849, John Mitchell Kemble: “a.d. 978. — In this year was held the…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- ‘to encounter, come’

meet, meat, mate, amadou, 10 more

through Proto-Germanic *mōtą ‘meeting’

meeting, mod

through Old English *mōt ‘meeting’

motley, moot, mote

Today it means

noun A (legislative or judicial) assembly in Anglo-Saxon England.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “gemot”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entries for Proto-Germanic *mōtą, Old English gemot. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- / gemot

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