Etymology

aftermovement

A1F4T1E1R1M3O1V4E1M3E1N1T1

Today it means: The movement of a limb following contraction of a muscle. Full definition →

English movement ← Middle English mevement ← Old French movement
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂ep
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₂epó
  3. Proto-Indo-European*h₂ep(o)teros
  4. Proto-Germanic*after
  5. Old Englishæfter
  6. Middle Englishafter
  7. Englishafter
  8. Old Englishæfter
  9. Old Englishæfter-
  10. Middle Englishafter-
  11. Englishafter-
  12. Proto-Indo-European*m(y)ewh₁-
  13. Proto-Indo-European*m(y)owh₁éyeti
  14. Proto-Italic*moweō
  15. Latinmovēre
  16. Old Frenchmovoir
  17. Old Frenchmovement
  18. Middle Englishmevement
  19. Englishmovement
  20. English todayaftermovement

From after- + movement.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.