English
hyperemotional
From hyper- + emotional.
A compound of hyper- + emotion + -al + emotional
Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- ‘to move’
Proto-Indo-European *m(y)owh₁éyeti
Proto-Italic *moweō ‘to move’
Latin moveō ‘to move, stir, set in motion’
Latin ēmoveō ‘to move out or away, remove’
Vulgar Latin *exmovēre
Old French esmovoir ‘to move’
Middle French esmouvoir ‘to move’
Middle French emotion
English emotion
Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- ‘to move’
Proto-Indo-European *m(y)owh₁éyeti
Proto-Italic *moweō ‘to move’
Latin moveō ‘to move, stir, set in motion’
Latin ēmoveō ‘to move out or away, remove’
Vulgar Latin *exmovēre
Old French esmovoir ‘to move’
Middle French esmouvoir ‘to move’
Middle French emotion
English emotion
English emotional
Today it means
adj Involving or exhibiting excessive emotion.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / hyperemotional