Where does “motif” come from?

Ancestry of “motif”, step by step

motif traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

Words derived from “motif”

• motive
• motivation
• motivate
• motivational
• motivating
• automotive
• electromotive
• motivator
• unmotivated
• magnetomotive
• motiveless
• motivationally
• demotivation
• demotivate
• motivity
• amotivational
• unmotived
• protonmotive
• demotivator
• undermotivated
• nonautomotive
• remotivation
• remotivate
• unmotivating