![]() Register for the Daily Good Word E-Mail! - You can get our daily Good Word sent directly to you via e-mail in either HTML or Text format. The English Wordbook is for gathering all the words borrowed into Ancwe (Ancillary World English), Mean English, or book-idiom, and giving their match in. English borrowed all these, and many of the words derived from them. In Latin we find medicus "doctor" and all the derivations from it, meditari "to meditate, think about", moderari "to moderate, keep within measure", modus "measure, size". Anglish is a version of English that avoids borrowed words from French, Latin and Greek in favor of Anglo-Saxon words and word roots, and sometimes revives old word roots that were pushed out of the language by those borrowings. the 1987 song Never Gonna Give You Up, performed by the English singer Rick. 'Moot' went from meaning an important gathering of the clans, to 'we can't settle this now, it's important enough to be handled by the moot' to 'it's not important right now' to 'it's not important'. Latin seems to have been the IE language that made the most of med-/mod-. In the mid-2000s, the then-director of the site, who is known as moot. This is what's interesting about the modern meaning. Actually, meet and moot developed from the same PIE source, med-/mod- "measure, to take appropriate measures, advise", source also of Sanskrit masti- "measuring, weighing", Armenian mit "thought", Hindi maatra "amount, magnitude", and English mete, as in 'mete out'. Word History: Today's Good Word meant simply "meeting" in Middle English, when it was spelled simply mot. In the US, however, someone is more likely to say, after the accident, "Whether Franklin could have made it to the roof without spilling any paint had Rory not shaken the ladder is a moot point." Here the point is no longer relevant since Franklin is currently sitting on the ground covered with paint. In Britain you might say, "Whether Franklin could carry the can of paint to the roof on his head without spilling any was a moot question that Franklin did not want to settle that particular day." Here the question is open, unsettled. In Play: We are primarily interested in the adjectival meaning of today's word. The noun is seldom used in North America but is still alive in other dialects of English: "Town officials were called together in a moot to discuss enforcement of the new statute." The comparative of this word is mooter while the superlative is mootest. Outside North America, the adjective means "arguable, open to debate" while in North America it means "not debatable". Notes: Today's word is what some have called a 'contranym', a word with two meanings that contradict each other. ![]() Undebatable, of no significance because irrelevant or already decided. to use (to purpose) brook, note, wend to, wield, bear, handle, work, run, go to, draw on, bring into play. Arguable, debatable, open to debate, not settled, as a moot question. My business take/nimb good care of their folk. ![]() A public meeting, especially one convened for judicial or legislative purposes. ![]()
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