## Meanings
1. To change position or go from one place to another.
2. To go to live or work in a different place.
3. An action you take to achieve something.
4. To make someone feel strong emotions, especially sadness or sympathy.
5. The act of changing where you live or work.

## Examples
- Please move a little closer to the window.
- They are moving to a new house next month.
- Quitting his job to start a business was a brave move.
- Their sad story moved us all to tears.
- They say three moves are as stressful as one fire.

## Synonyms
- budge
- interchange
- rearrange
- redistribute
- relocate
- shift
- stir
- transfer
- travel

## Derived Forms
- chademo
- comove
- earth-moving
- ever-moving
- fast-moving
- foremove
- inmove
- mismove
- movability
- movable
- movableness
- movably

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *m(y)ewh₁-
- Root: moven
- Root: mover
- Root: mouver
- Root: moveō

## Etymology
From Middle English moven, moeven, meven, borrowed from Old Northern French mover, moveir and Old French mouver, moveir (“to move”) (compare modern French mouvoir from Old French movoir), from Latin movēre (“move; change, exchange, go in or out, quit”), from Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- (“to move, drive”). Cognate with Lithuanian mauti (“to push on, rush”), Sanskrit मीवति (mī́vati, “pushes, presses, moves”), Middle Dutch mouwe (“sleeve”). Largely displaced native English stir, from Middle English stiren, sturien, from Old English styrian.

## AI Etymology
Move comes from Middle English moven, moeven, meven, borrowed from Old Northern French mover, moveir and Old French mouver, moveir (“to move”) (compare modern French mouvoir from Old French movoir), from Latin movēre (“move; change, exchange, go in or out, quit”), from Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- (“to move, drive”). Cognate with Lithuanian mauti (“to push on, rush”), Sanskrit मीवति (mī́vati, “pushes, presses, moves”), Middle Dutch mouwe (“sleeve”). Largely displaced native English stir, from Middle English stiren, sturien, from Old English styrian. In present-day English its meanings include to change position or go from one place to another, to go to live or work in a different place, and an action you take to achieve something. The historical chain runs through *m(y)ewh₁- (Proto-Indo-European), moven (Middle English), mover (fro-nor), mouver (Old French), and moveō (Latin).

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- Verbs of Movement

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