Proto-Indo-European
*m(y)ewh₁-
‘to move’
Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-.
114 English words in this record descend from Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-, most familiar first.
- move ← moven ← mover ← movēre ← *moweō
- movement ← mevement ← movoir ← movēre ← *moweō
- mobile ← mōbilis ← moveō ← *moweō ← *m(y)owh₁éyeti
- remove ← removen ← remover ← removoir ← removeō
- emotional ← emotion ← emotion ← esmouvoir ← esmovoir
- motion ← mocioun ← mōtiō ← *mowetjō
- promote ← prōmōtus ← prōmoveō ← moveō ← *moweō
- motor ← motour ← moveō ← *moweō ← *m(y)owh₁éyeti
- auto ← automobile ← automobile ← mobile ← mōbili
- promotion ← promocion ← prōmotiō ← prōmoveō ← moveō
- remote ← remot ← remotus ← removere ← moveō
- emotion ← esmouvoir ← esmovoir ← *exmovēre ← ēmoveō
More words from *m(y)ewh₁-
- momentum
- mobility
- automobile
- motive
- automotive
- motivate
- promoter
- motif
- removable
- mobilization
- mover
- mobilize
- remover
- immobile
- mobilisation
- emotionless
- motility
- mobilise
- emote
- motile
- promotor
- motorable
- promotable
- removeable
- motiveless
- ideomotor
- nonmotile
- movant
- motivo
- promotive
- removability
- movability
- admove
- aeromotor
- amove
- amotion
- antimovement
- automobilist
- audiomotor
- bimotor
- blandmobile
- comovement
- comove
- copromote
- cytomotive
- demotee
- demoter
- dorsomotor
- dysmotile
- ecomovement
- emotionable
- emove
- emotionlike
- emotionize
- extramotor
- foremove
- goymobile
- graphomotor
- hippomobile
- holomovement
- hypomotile
- hypermotile
- hydromotor
- hypermotor
- idiomotor
- immotile
- metaemotion
- micromotor
- mismove
- micromovement
- mispromote
- motrix
- moveless
- motivity
- motiveness
- motography
- motilely
- multimove
- multimovement
- nonmovement
- nonmotive
- nonemotion
- outmove
- overpromote
- perimovement
- photomovement
- photomotile
- postmovement
- postmove
- promotability
- promotee
- premovement
- premove
- promotement
- remotion
- repromote
- submovement
- submotive
- transmove
- unmotived
- unemotioned
- vasomotive
From Wiktionary, by Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); adapted. License.
Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-