English
emotional
Emotional comes from emotion + -al. Emotion comes from Middle French emotion, from esmouvoir ‘to move (feelings)’, ultimately from Latin ēmoveō ‘to move out’.
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*m(y)ewh₁-‘to move’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*m(y)owh₁éyetireconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*moweō‘to move’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmoveō‘to move’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEēmoveō‘to move out or away’
- Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CE*exmovērereconstructed
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400esmovoir‘to move’
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600esmouvoir‘to move (cause emotion)’
- Middle French, derivedc. 1400–1600emotion
- English1500–presentemotion
- Englishearliest quotation 1973emotional
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*m(y)ewh₁-‘to move’reconstructed
- Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*m(y)owh₁éyetireconstructed
- Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*moweō‘to move’reconstructed
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmoveō‘to move’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEēmoveō‘to move out or away’
- Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CE*exmovērereconstructed
- Old Frenchc. 842–1400esmovoir‘to move’
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600esmouvoir‘to move (cause emotion)’
- Middle French, derivedc. 1400–1600emotion
- English1500–presentemotion
- Englishearliest quotation 1973emotional
Earliest quotation: 1973, Oliver Sacks: “The 'movement' was simultaneously emotional and motoric, and essentially…”
A compound of emotion + -al
Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- ‘to move’
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Vulgar Latin *exmovēre
Old French esmovoir ‘to move’
Middle French esmouvoir ‘to move’
Middle French emotion
English emotion
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- ‘to move’
through Proto-Indo-European *m(y)owh₁éyeti
through Proto-Italic *moweō ‘to move’
move, momentum, automobile, automotive, promoter, immobile, 87 more
through Latin moveō ‘to move, stir, set in motion’
mobile, auto, remove, promote, motor, mobility, remote, promotion, motive, motivate, mobilize, removable, motif, mobilization, mobilise, mobilisation, motility, motile, 66 more
through English emotion
Today it means
adj Of or relating to the emotions.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- / emotional