movoir
Old French edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
movoir
- (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
- to cause, set in motion
- to move, introduce (an argument, etc.)
Conjugation edit
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 | ||||||
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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 edit
Descendants edit
- Angevin: mouvair
- Gallo: mouvair
- Middle French: mouvoir
- French: mouvoir
- Norman: mouver
- Picard: muvoér
- Walloon: mouwer
- → Middle English: moven
- English: move
Noun edit
movoir oblique singular, m (oblique plural movoirs, nominative singular movoirs, nominative plural movoir)