moot – English noun declension

English noun forms of moot

Noun: moot
Singularmoot
Pluralmoots

Sample Sentences

  • The pleading used in courts and chancery called moots. [1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke Named the Governour […], London: […] Tho[mas] Bertheleti, →OCLC:]

Etymology

From Middle English mōt, ȝemōt, from Old English *mōt, ġemōt (“meeting”), from Proto-Germanic *mōtą, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“to encounter, come”). Cognate with Scots mut, mote (“meeting, assembly”), Low German Mööt (“meeting”), Moot (“meeting”), archaic Dutch (ge)moet (“meeting”), Danish møde (“meeting”), Swedish möte (“meeting”), Norwegian møte (“meeting”), Icelandic mót (“meeting, tournament, meet”). Related to meet. The adjective derives from the noun. See: Middle English Nouns 'mōt', Danish Nouns 'møde', Swedish Nouns 'möte', Icelandic Nouns 'mót'.

Verbs referencing "moot"

Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns møte.