movoir

Old French

Alternative forms

• moveir, muveir, mover

Etymology

From Latin movēre.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /muˈvoi̯ɾ/

Verb

movoir

1. (transitive, intransitive) to move
   • 1377, Bernard de Gordon, Fleur de lis de medecine (a.k.a. lilium medicine):

     Item tu dois scavoir que les humeurs grosses se meuvent plus de nuit pour la forte chaleur

     Also you must know that the thick humors move more at night because of the strong heat

2. to cause, set in motion
3. to move, introduce (an argument, etc.)

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has a stressed present stem muev distinct from the unstressed stem mov, as well as other irregularities. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

    Conjugation of movoir (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		movoir			avoir meü, meu
gerund		en movant			gerund of avoir + past participle
present participle		movant
past participle		meü, meu
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		jo	tu	il	nos	vos	il
simple tenses	present	muef	mues	muet	movons	movez	muevent
	imperfect	movoie, moveie	movoies, moveies	movoit, moveit	moviiens, moviens	moviiez, moviez	movoient, moveient
	preterite	mui	meüs	mut	meümes	meüstes	murent
	future	movrai	movras	movra	movrons	movroiz, movreiz, movrez	movront
	conditional	movroie, movreie	movroies, movreies	movroit, movreit	movriiens, movriens	movriiez, movriez	movroient, movreient
compound tenses	present perfect	present tense of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect tense of avoir + past participle
	past anterior	preterite tense of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future tense of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional tense of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que jo	que tu	qu’il	que nos	que vos	qu’il
simple tenses	present	mueve	mueves	mueve	movons	movez	muevent
	imperfect	meüsse	meüsses	meüst	meüssons, meüssiens	meüssoiz, meüssez, meüssiez	meüssent
compound tenses	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nos	vos	–
		—	muef	—	movons	movez	—

Related terms

• esmovoir

Descendants

• Angevin: mouvair
• Gallo: mouvair
• Middle French: mouvoir
  • French: mouvoir
• Norman: mouver
• Picard: muvoér
• Walloon: mouwer
• → Middle English: moven
  • English: move

Noun

movoir oblique singular, m (oblique plural movoirs, nominative singular movoirs, nominative plural movoir)

1. departure
2. pastoral