locomotion

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*m(y)ewh₁-“to move, drive”
2. Latin · derived frommovēre“move; change, exchange, go in or out, quit”
3. Latin · derived fromlocō
4. French · derived fromlocomotion
5. English todaylocomotion

From French locomotion, from Latin locō (literally “from a place”) (ablative of locus (“place”)) + mōtiōnem (“motion, a moving”) (nominative mōtio), from Latin movēre (“move; change, exchange, go in or out, quit”), from Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- (“to move, drive”).

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