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Movement comes from Middle English mevement, from Old French movement, from movoir ‘to move’ + -ment, from Latin moveō.

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 CEmoveō¹‘to move’
5. Old Frenchc. 842–1400movoir¹‘to move’
6. Old Frenchc. 842–1400movement¹
7. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500mevement¹
8. Englishearliest quotation 1923movement¹

1. ¹ Wiktionary, English movement
2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1923, Samuel Goodwin Gant, Diseases of the Rectum: “when after a movement feces are streaked with blood…”.