—verb (used with object)
- to present or introduce (any point, subject, project, etc.) for discussion.
1154, from O.E. gemot "meeting" (especially of freemen, to discuss community affairs or mete justice), from P.Gmc. *ga-motan (cf. Old Low Frankish muot "encounter," M.Du. moet, M.H.G. muoz), from collective prefix *ga- + *motan (see meet (v.)).
(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/moot)
"The largest of these disease outbreaks were known as cocoliztli (from the word for ‘pestilence’ in Nahuatl, the Aztec language)...
"There has been little consensus on the cause of cocoliztli — although measles, smallpox and typhus have all been mooted."
- Ewen Callaway, "Collapse of Aztec society linked to catastrophic salmonella outbreak", 16 February 2017 Nature News (http://www.nature.com/news/collapse-of-aztec-society-linked-to-catastrophic-salmonella-outbreak-1.21485)
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