Etymology

submovement

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Today it means: A movement making up part of a larger movement. Full definition →

English movement ← Middle English mevement ← Old French movement
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*upó
  2. Proto-Italic*supo
  3. Latinsub
  4. Latinsub-
  5. Englishsub-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*m(y)ewh₁-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*m(y)owh₁éyeti
  8. Proto-Italic*moweō
  9. Latinmovēre
  10. Old Frenchmovoir
  11. Old Frenchmovement
  12. Middle Englishmevement
  13. Englishmovement
  14. English todaysubmovement

From sub- + movement.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.