Etymology

self-moving

Today it means: Moving by or of itself. Full definition →

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

  1. Proto-Indo-European*swé?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*selbʰ-
  3. Proto-Germanic*selbaz
  4. Old Englishself
  5. Old Englishself-
  6. Middle Englishself-
  7. Englishself-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*m(y)ewh₁-
  9. Proto-Indo-European*m(y)owh₁éyeti
  10. Proto-Italic*moweō
  11. Latinmovēre
  12. Old Northern Frenchmover
  13. Middle Englishmoven
  14. Englishmoving
  15. English todayself-moving

From self- + moving.

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