move

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. English todaymove

From Middle English moven, moeven, meven, borrowed from Old Northern French mover, moveir and Old French mouver, moveir (“to move”) (compare modern French mouvoir from Old French movoir), from Latin movēre (“move; change, exchange, go in or out, quit”), from Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- (“to move, drive”). Cognate with Lithuanian mauti (“to push on, rush”), Sanskrit मीवति (mī́vati, “pushes, presses, moves”), Middle Dutch mouwe (“sleeve”). Largely displaced native English stir, from Middle English stiren, sturien, from Old English styrian. See also Old English hrēran.

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