migration English · revision 7455

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1611|origins=la migro}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /maɪˈɡɹeɪʃ(ə)n/ ''(UK)''^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|fr|migration]] or directly Latin [[m|la|migratio|t=a removal, change of abode]],^(Hoad 1986)^(MWU 2024) from the past participle stem of [[m|la|migro|alt=migrāre|t=to move from one place to another]] (see [[migrate]]),^(Etymonline)^(SOED 2002) probably from PIE *(e)meigʷ-, an extended form of [[ine-pro|*mey-|alt=*mei-|t=to change, go, move]].^(Etymonline)^(Hoad 1986)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Movement from one place to another, chiefly of things: 1611 in the OED;^(OED 1989) change of residence, 1610s in Etymonline.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Of persons or tribes moving from one country to another, it is from 1646 (1640s),^(OED 1989)^(Etymonline) and of animals moving seasonally in flocks or shoals also from 1646.^(OED 1989) A number of animals migrating together is by 1880.^(Etymonline) Etymonline notes that bird migration across the seas was understood in the Middle Ages but later forgotten, and that Johnson held that swallows slept all winter in river beds.^(Etymonline) In medicine, a change of position of an organ is from 1890,^(OED 1989) and in chemistry the movement of atoms or ions is a later sense.^(OED 1989)^(Collins 2023)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1611 – movement in general.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1646 – of persons and animals.^(OED 1989)

+ * 1880 – a group migrating.^(Etymonline)

+ * 1890 – of a bodily organ.^(OED 1989)

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+ ==Modern meaning==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The act of [[migrate|alt=migrating]], moving from one region to another.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # A group of people or animals migrating together.^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

+ # ''(chemistry)'' The movement of [[atom|alt=atoms]] within a [[molecule]], or of ions during [[electrolysis]].^(AHD)^(Collins 2023)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[migrational]]

+ * [[countermigration]]

+ * [[intermigration]]

+ * [[nonmigration]]

+ * [[premigration]]

+ * [[remigration]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[emigration]]

+ * [[migrant]]

+ * [[migrate]]

+ * [[migratory]]

+ * [[immigration]]

+ * [[emigrate]]

+ * [[immigrate]]

+ * [[mutable]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}