move English · revision 3621

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=c. 1275|origins=ine-pro *meuə-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /muːv/^(Roach et al. 2011)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|enm|moven]] (also [[m|enm|meven]]),^(Barnhart 1988)^(MWU 2024) [[bor|xno|mover]], Old French [[m|fro|movoir]],^(Etymonline)^(Barnhart 1988)^(Klein 1966) from [[la|movēre|t=to move, set in motion; to remove, disturb]],^(Etymonline)^(AHD 2000) from [[ine-pro|*meuə-|t=to push away]].^(Etymonline)^(AHD 2000) Proposed relatives include Greek [[m|grc|ἀμεύσασθαι|tr=ameúsasthai|t=to surpass]] and Lithuanian [[m|lt|máuti|t=to strip off]].^(Barnhart 1988)^(MWU 2024)^(Klein 1966) The Latin verb is also the source of [[mobile]], [[moment]], [[motion]], [[motive]], [[motor]], [[promote]] and [[remote]].^(Cresswell 2021)^(Klein 1966)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ To change one's place or posture, to stir: late 13th century,^(Etymonline) about 1275.^(Barnhart 1988) Also in the late 13th century, “to stir up, rouse to action”, of the feelings or the mind.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ “To go from one place to another” is from about 1300, and the transitive “to change the position of, set in motion” from the late 14th century.^(Etymonline) “To affect someone emotionally” is from the early 14th century, and “to prompt someone to do something” from the late 14th century.^(Etymonline) The sense “to propose formally”, as a motion in an assembly, dates from the early 15th century.^(Etymonline) The noun first meant a proposal in the mid-15th century, a sense now obsolete,^(Etymonline)^(SOED 2002) then a move in chess or draughts from 1656,^(Barnhart 1988)^(MW Collegiate) an act of moving from 1827, in Disraeli's ''Vivian Grey'',^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline) and a change of residence by 1853.^(Etymonline) ''On the move'' is from 1779 and ''get a move on'' is American, from 1888.^(Etymonline) People have been prepared to ''move heaven and earth'' since the 1790s and to ''move with the times'' since 1875.^(Cresswell 2021) Arthur O'Shaughnessy called poets “the movers and shakers of the world” in 1873, and ''movers and shakers'' came to mean powerful people in the 1950s.^(Cresswell 2021) ''Moving pictures'' appeared in 1896 and ''movies'' by 1909.^(Cresswell 2021)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 1275 – to stir, change place.^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)

+ * c. 1300 – to go from place to place.^(Etymonline)

+ * early 14th century – to affect emotionally.^(Etymonline)

+ * early 15th century – to propose formally.^(Etymonline)

+ * mid-15th century – noun, a proposal.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1656 – a move in a game.^(Barnhart 1988)^(MW Collegiate)

+ * 1827 – an act of moving (Disraeli).^(Barnhart 1988)

+ * 1853 – a change of residence.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1888 – ''get a move on''.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1950s – ''movers and shakers''.^(Cresswell 2021)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To change position or place; to go from one point to another.^(AHD)^(SOED 2002)

+ # To change the place or position of; to set in [[motion]].^(AHD)^(Etymonline)

+ # To go to live or work in another place; to [[relocate]].^(AHD)^(Etymonline)

+ # To progress or advance: ''things are moving fast''.^(AHD)

+ # To stir the feelings of; to [[affect]] emotionally.^(AHD)^(Etymonline)

+ # To prompt to action; to [[rouse]].^(AHD)^(Etymonline)

+ # To propose formally in a meeting: ''move an amendment''.^(AHD)^(Etymonline)

+ # Of goods, to be sold.^(AHD)

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+ ===Noun===

+ # An act of moving; a change of position.^(AHD)^(Etymonline)

+ # A change of residence or place of work.^(AHD)^(Etymonline)

+ # In a board game, the act of moving a piece, or a player's turn to do so.^(AHD)^(Barnhart 1988)

+ # An action taken to achieve an aim; a [[manoeuvre]].^(AHD)^(SOED 2002)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[moveless]]

+ * [[outmove]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[mobile]]

+ * [[moment]]

+ * [[motion]]

+ * [[motive]]

+ * [[motor]]

+ * [[promote]]

+ * [[remote]]

+ * [[remove]]

+ * [[movie]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}