Etymograph

English

comove

Comove comes from Proto-Italic *moweō ‘to move’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*m(y)ewh₁-1‘to move’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*m(y)owh₁éyeti1reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*moweō1‘to move’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmovēre1
  5. Old Northern Frenchc. 842–1400mover1
  6. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500moven1
  7. English1500–presentmove1
  8. Englishearliest quotation 2003comove1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English comove
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 2003, Paolo Mauro, Appendix I: The First Era of International Financial Integra: “Spreads on bond yields in a common currency today…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*m(y)ewh₁-Wiktionary, English comove‘to move’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*m(y)owh₁éyetiWiktionary, English comovereconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*moweōWiktionary, English comove‘to move’reconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmovēreWiktionary, English comove
  5. Old Northern Frenchc. 842–1400moverWiktionary, English comove
  6. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500movenWiktionary, English comove
  7. English1500–presentmoveWiktionary, English comove
  8. Englishearliest quotation 2003comoveWiktionary, English comove. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 2003, Paolo Mauro, Appendix I: The First Era of International Financial Integra: “Spreads on bond yields in a common currency today…”

A compound of co- + move

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm ‘beside, near, by, with’

Proto-Italic *kom ‘with, along, at’

Proto-Italic *kom- ‘together’

English co-

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

…

Proto-Italic *moweō ‘to move’

Latin moveō ‘move’

Old Northern French mover ‘to move’

Middle English moven

English move

Linked words

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

motion, 82 more

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

automobile, automotive, promoter, immobile, emotionless, remover, 82 more

through Proto-Italic *moweō ‘to move’

mobile, auto, emotional, motor, remote, promote, promotion, remove, emotion, mobility, momentum, motive, motivate, motif, mobilization, mobilize, removable, mobilisation, motility, mobilise, emote, motile, 88 more

through Latin movēre

movement, 23 more

through English move

mover, 10 more

Today it means

verb To move in a correlated fashion

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “comove”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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

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