Where does “migration” come from?
Migration comes from Middle French migration, which referred to the movement of people from one place to another.
migration (English): An instance of moving to live in another place...
Definitions
- An instance of moving to live in another place...
Ancestry of “migration”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Middle French | migration | migration movement from one place to another |
| 2 | Latin | migrātiō | move (change of dwelling) |
| 3 | Latin | -tiō | tion, -ation, -ing |
| 4 | Latin | dissertātiō | (spoken) dissertation, discourse, disquisition |
| 5 | Latin | dissertus | arranged, disposed; explained |
| 6 | Latin | disserere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 7 | Latin | dis- | asunder, apart, in two; reversal, removal;... |
| 8 | Latin | calceus | shoe |
| 9 | Latin | calx | limestone; chalk; the finish line |
| 10 | Ancient Greek | χάλιξ | small stone, pebble; gravel, rubble |
Words derived from “migration”
- outmigration
- electromigration
- migrational
- premigration
- remigration
- inmigration
- postmigration
- intermigration
- comigration
- antimigration
- migrationism
- ecomigration
- abmigration
- hypermigration
- automigration
- chemomigration
- climigration
- countermigration
- endomigration
- migrationist
- mismigration
- neuromigration
- nonmigration
- overmigration