Etymology

countermove

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Today it means: A move in opposition or response to a preceding move. 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. Proto-Italic*komteros
  6. Proto-Italic*komterād
  7. Latincontrā
  8. Old Frenchcontre-
  9. Anglo-Normancountre-
  10. Middle Englishcounter-
  11. Englishcounter-
  12. Proto-Indo-European*m(y)ewh₁-
  13. Proto-Indo-European*m(y)owh₁éyeti
  14. Proto-Italic*moweō
  15. Latinmovēre
  16. Old Northern Frenchmover
  17. Middle Englishmoven
  18. Englishmove
  19. English todaycountermove

From counter- + move.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.