Where does “mouvoir” come from?

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

mouvoir (Middle French): to move

Definitions

  1. to move

Ancestry of “mouvoir”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchmovoirto move; to cause, set in motion; to move,...
2Latinmoveōto move, stir, set in motion
3Proto-Italicmoweōto move
4Proto-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 →
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