Where does “psychomotor” come from?
I need to work through this chain carefully, but I notice there's a significant problem: the chain provided doesn't actually support the word "psychomotor."
The chain given is:
English motor ← Ancient Greek ψυχή ← Latin moto ← Ancient Greek -ᾱ ← Proto-Indo-European -eh₂
This chain shows etymologies for "motor" and some Greek/Latin elements, but "psychomotor" is a compound of "psycho-" (from Greek ψυχή "soul/mind") + "motor" (from Latin motus, related to movere "to move"). The chain as written is incoherent—it doesn't represent how either component actually developed, and it creates a circular path (Greek to Latin to Greek to PIE) that doesn't make linguistic sense.
To write an accurate one-sentence etymology for "psychomotor," I would need
psychomotor (English): Of or pertaining to the function of muscles under...
Definitions
- Of or pertaining to the function of muscles under...
Ancestry of “psychomotor”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | motor | A machine or device that converts other energy... |
| 2 | Middle English | motour | — |
| 3 | Latin | motor | mover; that which moves something; first-person... |
| 4 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |
Words derived from “psychomotor”