Etymology

nonmotivation

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Today it means: Lack of motivation. Full definition →

English motivation ← Middle English motif ← Late Latin mōtīvum
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Germanic*ne
  3. Proto-Indo-European*ís?
  4. Proto-Indo-European*h₁óynos
  5. Proto-Germanic*ainaz
  6. Proto-Germanic*nainaz
  7. Proto-West Germanic*nain
  8. Old Englishnān
  9. Middle Englishnon
  10. Old Englishnān
  11. Old Englishnān-
  12. Middle Englishnon-
  13. Englishnon-
  14. Anglo-Normanmotif
  15. Middle Frenchmotif
  16. Proto-Indo-European*m(y)ewh₁-
  17. Proto-Indo-European*m(y)owh₁éyeti
  18. Proto-Italic*moweō
  19. Latinmoveō
  20. Latinmōtus
  21. Late Latinmōtīvum
  22. Middle Englishmotif
  23. Englishmotive
  24. Englishmotivation
  25. English todaynonmotivation

From non- + motivation.

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