Eddie said, The origins of the word date to before 900 AD (ME, mot(e), meeting or assembly); "moot," therefore, is etymologically connected to the word "meet." (Thanks, friend.) This got me to thinking.
Kentucky is laid out according to the metes and bounds system. My geology teacher did not go into why it is called that--he just wanted us to learn the name. But it makes sense to me that you could say, "XYZ property is bordered (bound) by Stinking Creek (there really is one so named) on the east", for ex. Could metes be a corruption of meets? As in, "ABC property ends where Beargrass Creek meets the Ohio River"?