Etymograph

English

immobile

Immobile comes from Latin immōbilis ‘immobile, immovable’, from mōbilis ‘movable’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- ‘to move’.

  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 CEmōbilis‘movable’
  6. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEimmōbilis‘immobile, immovable’
  7. Old Frenchc. 842–1400immobile
  8. Englishearliest quotation 1963immobile

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 CEmōbilis‘movable’
  6. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEimmōbilis‘immobile, immovable’
  7. Old Frenchc. 842–1400immobile
  8. Englishearliest quotation 1963immobile

Earliest quotation: 1963, Highway Research Record:: “[…] if the constrained "immobiles" are given the same…”

Formed from im- + mobile

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

Proto-Indo-European *m(y)owh₁éyeti

Proto-Italic *moweō ‘to move’

Latin moveō ‘move’

Latin mōbilis ‘easy to be moved’

English mobile

Linked words

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

motion, remover, 83 more

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

movement, mover, 84 more

through Proto-Italic *moweō ‘to move’

move, momentum, automotive, promoter, emotionless, 86 more

through Latin moveō ‘to move, stir, set in motion’

remove, emotional, auto, promote, motor, promotion, remote, emotion, motive, motivate, motif, removable, motility, emote, motile, 64 more

through Latin mōbilis ‘movable’

mobility, automobile, mobilization, mobilize, mobilisation, mobilise, 2 more

Today it means

adj Fixed, not movable.

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

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

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