different between mooting vs tooting

English

From Middle English motinge, moting, from Old English m?tung, equivalent to moot +? -ing.

mooting (plural mootings)

The activity of taking part in a moot court.
- 1806-1820, William Cobbett, Parliamentary History of England from the Norman conquest in 1066 to the Year 1803
  In this he had been guided, not by the mootings of lawyers, not by the reveries of pamphlets, not by the conversation of coffee-houses, but by the opinions of minds that were fitter to direct than to co-operate with such minds as his.

From moot +? -ing.

mooting

tooting

tooting (plural tootings)

The sound of a toot.
- 1867, Sewell Newhouse, John Humphrey Noyes, The Trapper's Guide
  These tootings can be sometimes heard at the distance of a mile.

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