Etymology

midmovement

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Today it means: A point in time during a movement. Full definition →

English movement ← Middle English mevement ← Old French movement
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*me
  2. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-?
  3. Proto-Indo-European*médʰi
  4. Proto-Indo-European*médʰyos
  5. Proto-Germanic*midjaz
  6. Proto-West Germanic*midi
  7. Old Englishmidd
  8. Middle Englishmid
  9. Englishmid
  10. Englishmid-
  11. Proto-Indo-European*m(y)ewh₁-
  12. Proto-Indo-European*m(y)owh₁éyeti
  13. Proto-Italic*moweō
  14. Latinmovēre
  15. Old Frenchmovoir
  16. Old Frenchmovement
  17. Middle Englishmevement
  18. Englishmovement
  19. English todaymidmovement

From mid- + movement.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.