Where does “mocioun” come from?

mocioun (Middle English) comes from Middle French motion, from Latin mōtio, from Latin movēre, from Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- — to move.

Ancestry of “mocioun”, step by step

mocioun traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Middle French motion

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Frenchmotion—
2Latinmōtiomotion, movement
3Latinmovēre—
4Proto-Indo-European*m(y)ewh₁-to move

via Anglo-Norman motion

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Anglo-Normanmotion—

Words derived from “mocioun”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- →Every word from Latin movēre →Every word from Latin mōtio →