Where does “mouvoir” come from?

mouvoir (French) comes from Middle French mouvoir, from Old French movoir, from Latin moveō, from Proto-Italic moweō, from Proto-Indo-European mew- — to move.

mouvoir (French): to move; to go around, to move about

Definitions

  1. to move; to go around, to move about

Ancestry of “mouvoir”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Frenchmouvoirto move
2Old Frenchmovoirto move; to cause, set in motion; to move,...
3Latinmoveōto move, stir, set in motion
4Proto-Italicmoweōto move
5Proto-Indo-Europeanmew-to move

Words derived from “mouvoir”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European mew- →Every word from Proto-Italic moweō →Every word from Latin moveō →