Etymograph

English

emotionless

Emotionless comes from Middle French emotion, from esmouvoir ‘to move’, and ultimately from 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 CEmoveō‘to move, stir, set in motion’
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEēmoveō‘to move out or away, remove’
  6. Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CE*exmovērereconstructed
  7. Old Frenchc. 842–1400esmovoir‘to move’
  8. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600esmouvoir‘to move’
  9. Middle French, derivedc. 1400–1600emotion
  10. English1500–presentemotion
  11. Englishearliest quotation 2001emotionless

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

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 CEmoveō‘to move, stir, set in motion’
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEēmoveō‘to move out or away, remove’
  6. Vulgar Latinc. 100–700 CE*exmovērereconstructed
  7. Old Frenchc. 842–1400esmovoir‘to move’
  8. Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600esmouvoir‘to move’
  9. Middle French, derivedc. 1400–1600emotion
  10. English1500–presentemotion
  11. Englishearliest quotation 2001emotionless

Earliest quotation: 2001, Dan Brown, Deception Point: “Overhanging her precarious body was a jaundiced face whose…”

A compound of emotion + -less

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’

motion, remover, 84 more

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

movement, mover, 85 more

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, remote, mobility, promotion, motive, motivate, mobilize, removable, motif, mobilization, mobilise, mobilisation, motility, motile, 66 more

through English emotion

emote, 7 more

Today it means

adj Lacking emotion.

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

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

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