Etymology

nonmovant

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Today it means: The party to a lawsuit who did not make a particular motion Full definition →

English movant ← Middle English moven ← Old Northern French mover
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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. Proto-Indo-European*m(y)ewh₁-
  15. Proto-Indo-European*m(y)owh₁éyeti
  16. Proto-Italic*moweō
  17. Latinmovēre
  18. Old Northern Frenchmover
  19. Middle Englishmoven
  20. Englishmove
  21. Englishmovant
  22. English todaynonmovant

From non- + movant.

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