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Where does “locomotiveness” come from?

locomotiveness (English) comes from English locomotive, from French locomotif, from Vulgar Latin motivus, from Latin motus, from Latin movere, from Latin moveo, from Proto-Italic moweō, from Proto-Indo-European mew- — to move.

locomotiveness (English): Alternative form of locomotivity

Definitions

  1. Alternative form of locomotivity

Ancestry of “locomotiveness”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishlocomotiveThe power unit of a train that pulls the coaches...
2Frenchlocomotiflocomotive
3Vulgar Latinmotivusmoving; stirred; moved
4Latinmotusmoved, stirred, disturbed, having been moved;...
5Latinmoverepresent active infinitive of moveō; second-person...
6LatinmoveoI move, stir, set in motion; I disturb, shake,...
7Proto-Italicmoweō—
8Proto-Indo-Europeanmew-to move
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