On the subject of which: “moot” is an old Saxon word for “debate” – closest thing we had to democracy between the Roman conquest and Christianity. Sort of. So anyone going on about a moot point, thinking it’s thereby settled: uh, no. We’ve only just begun. Not-quite-tangent – modern German cognate: ‘vermuten’; to reckon; to suspect; to hypothesize. Break out the popcorn.