Etymograph

English

comove

Comove comes from Proto-Italic *moweō ‘to move’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*m(y)ewh₁-‘to move’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*m(y)owh₁éyetireconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*moweō‘to move’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmovēre
  5. Old Northern Frenchc. 842–1400mover
  6. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500moven
  7. English1500–presentmove
  8. Englishearliest quotation 2003comove

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*m(y)ewh₁-‘to move’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*m(y)owh₁éyetireconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*moweō‘to move’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmovēre
  5. Old Northern Frenchc. 842–1400mover
  6. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500moven
  7. English1500–presentmove
  8. Englishearliest quotation 2003comove

Earliest quotation: 2003, Paolo Mauro, Appendix I: The First Era of International Financial Integra: “Spreads on bond yields in a common currency today…”

A compound of co- + move

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm ‘beside, near, by, with’

Proto-Italic *kom ‘with, along, at’

Proto-Italic *kom- ‘together’

English co-

Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- ‘to move, drive’

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Proto-Italic *moweō ‘to move’

Latin moveō ‘move’

Old Northern French mover ‘to move’

Middle English moven

English move

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- ‘to move’

motion, 82 more

through Proto-Indo-European *m(y)owh₁éyeti

automobile, automotive, promoter, immobile, emotionless, remover, 82 more

through Proto-Italic *moweō ‘to move’

mobile, auto, emotional, motor, remote, promote, promotion, remove, emotion, mobility, momentum, motive, motivate, motif, mobilization, mobilize, removable, mobilisation, motility, mobilise, emote, motile, 88 more

through Latin movēre

movement, 23 more

through English move

mover, 10 more

Today it means

verb To move in a correlated fashion

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- / comove