moot

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pohtia puhekieltä Subject to discussion (originally at a Noun moot); arguable, debatable, unsolved or impossible to solve.
1770, (w), The w:HMS Bark Endeavour|Endeavour Journal of Sir Joseph Banks, s:The Endeavour Journal of Sir Joseph Banks/January 1770|January 4, 1770 (published 1962):

(..):indeed we were obligd to hawl off rather in a hurry for the wind freshning a little we found ourselves in a bay which it was a moot point whether or not we could get out of:(..)

The uncertain, unsettled condition of this science of Cetology is in the very vestibule attested by the fact, that in some quarters it still remains a moot point whether a whale be a fish.

The extent to which these Parisian radicals ‘represented’ the French people as a whole was very moot.

Walter Crane and Lewis F. Day (1903) Moot Points: Friendly Disputes on Art and Industry Between Walter Crane and Lewis F. Day

That point may make for a good discussion, but it is moot.

The question whether certain poetry was present in the original Hebrew Psalms in our own time is moot, since various considerations have made it certain that, of all the hazards presented by biblical translation, a dangerous excess of beauty is not one of them.

The pleading used in courts and chancery called moots.

a problem which hardly has been mentioned, much less mooted, in this country

First a case is appointed to be mooted by certain young men, containing some doubtful controversy.

There is a difference between mooting and pleading; between fencing and fighting.

(ux)

(ux) (The Chester Mystery Plays, c. late 15th century)

(ux) (The Towneley Mystery Plays, c. 15th century)

(ux).