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Motion comes from Middle English mocioun, from Anglo-Norman and Middle French motion, from Latin mōtiō ‘movement’, ultimately from PIE *m(y)ewh₁- ‘to move’.

1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*m(y)ewh₁-¹‘to move’reconstructed
2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*mowetjō²reconstructed
3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmōtiō¹‘movement’
4. Anglo-Normanc. 1066–1400motion¹
5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500mocioun¹
6. Englishearliest quotation c. 1591–1592motion¹

1. ¹ Wiktionary, English motion
2. ² Wiktionary, Latin motio
3. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: c. 1591–1592, William Shakespeare, The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]: “Yes, I agree, and thank you for your motion.”.