Etymology

comove

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Today it means: To move in a correlated fashion Full definition →

English move ← Middle English moven ← Old Northern French mover
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
  3. Proto-Italic*kom
  4. Proto-Italic*kom-
  5. Latincon-
  6. Latinco-
  7. Englishco-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*m(y)ewh₁-
  9. Proto-Indo-European*m(y)owh₁éyeti
  10. Proto-Italic*moweō
  11. Latinmovēre
  12. Old Northern Frenchmover
  13. Middle Englishmoven
  14. Englishmove
  15. English todaycomove

From co- + move.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.