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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-.

Ancestry of “mocioun”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Frenchmotion—
2Latinmōtio—
3Latinmovēre—
4Proto-Indo-European*m(y)ewh₁-—
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