gemotとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Learned borrowing from 古期英語 ġemōt (“meeting, council, moot, encounter”).

発音

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

名詞

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.

関連する語

• moot
• witenagemot

発音

• IPA: /jeˈmoːt/

名詞

ġemōt n

1. meeting (encounter, assembly, or confluence)
   • 10th century, Exeter Book Riddle 5‎:

     […] iċ ābīdan sceal lāþran ġemōtes.

     […] I shall abide more hateful meetings.

2. court or judicial assembly

語形変化

Strong a-stem:

同意語

• mēting
• þing

派生語

派生した語

• Middle English: mōt, ȝemōt
  • English: moot
  • Scots: mut, mote

参照

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “gemot”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.