Etymology
1. 1275, from Anglo-Fr.
movir (O.Fr.
moveir), from L.
movere "move, set in motion" (pp.
motus, freq.
motare), from PIE base
*meue- (cf., Skt.
kama-muta "moved by love" and probably
mivati "pushes, moves;" Lith.
mauti "push on;" Gk.
ameusasthai "to surpass,"
amyno "push away"). Meaning "to affect with emotion" is from c.1300; that of "to prompt or impel toward some action" is from c.1380. Sense of "to change one's place of residence" is from 1707. Meaning "to propose (something) in an assembly, etc.," is first attested 1452. The noun in the gaming sense is from 1656. Phrase
on the move "in the process of going from one place to another" is from 1796;
get a move on "hurry up" is Amer.Eng. colloquial from 1888. A
moveable feast (1430) is one in the Church calendar which, though always on the same day of the week, varies its date from year to year.
2. Etymology tree
3. Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-
4. Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
5. Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
6. Proto-Indo-European *m(y)owh₁éyeti
7. Proto-Italic *moweō
8. Latin movēre
9. Old Northern French moverbor.
10. Middle English moven
11. English move
12. 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. See: Latin '
moveō', Lithuanian '
mauti', Sanskrit '
मीवति'.
Verbs referencing "move"
Esperanto
movi, Spanish
mover, Dutch
moven, Ido movar.