Etymology

comovement

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Today it means: The correlated or similar movement of two or more entities. Full definition →

English movement ← Middle English mevement ← Old French movement
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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 Frenchmovoir
  13. Old Frenchmovement
  14. Middle Englishmevement
  15. Englishmovement
  16. English todaycomovement

From co- + movement.

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