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Gemot vs Mot - What's the difference?

gemot | mot |

As a noun gemot

is public meeting.

As a preposition mot is

with.

gemot

English

Alternative forms

* gemoot * gemote

Noun

(en noun)
  • public meeting
  • judicial assembly
    • Each division had a court subordinate to those that were superior, the highest in each shire being the shire-gemot , or folck-mote, ...'' — Geoff Horton, ''The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints , 1895
  • assembly, council, moot
    • I have spoken to Veedron, a member of one of Trellisane's many gemots , or ruling councils.'' — David Dvorkin, ''The Trellisane Confrontation , 1984
    English words prefixed with ge- ----

    mot

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) mot. Compare motto.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A witty remark; a witticism; a bon mot.
  • * N. Brit. Rev.
    • Here and there turns up a savage mot .
  • * 1970 , John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse , New York 2007, p. 32:
    • ‘He comes from Montreal, in Canada.’ ‘Why?’ she said, repeating Dr Johnson's mot with a forced sneer.
  • (obsolete) A word or a motto; a device.
    • (Bishop Hall)
  • * Shakespeare
    • Tarquin's eye may read the mot afar.
  • (obsolete) A note or brief strain on a bugle.
    • (Sir Walter Scott)

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (head)
  • (slang, Irish English) A girl, woman or girlfriend, particularly in the Dublin area.
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