Etymology

movant

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Today it means: The party who moves for the judge to rule in favor of a motion. Full definition →

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

  1. Proto-Indo-European*m(y)ewh₁-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*m(y)owh₁éyeti
  3. Proto-Italic*moweō
  4. Latinmovēre
  5. Old Northern Frenchmover
  6. Middle Englishmoven
  7. Englishmove
  8. English todaymovant

From move + -ant.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.