SOURCE 01supportshistorical dictionary
Emotion — Origin and history
Publishes the reconstruction but no deeper promoted parent.
Headword history: PIE *meue- endpoint- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Douglas Harper
- YEAR
- 2026
- PUBLISHER
- Online Etymology Dictionary
PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
ALL DISPUTES ↗CLAIM / COUNTERCLAIM / LIMITRECORD 160
DISPUTE
RECORD.
One scholarly question. Every attached source. The present editorial state, without pretending the last word has been written.
openproposed
Can the movement family be pushed securely beyond *meue-?
Not from the reviewed evidence. Etymonline publishes *meue- for the movement root, but this dossier does not promote an older form without specialist comparative review.
WORD UNDER REVIEWDISPUTE 160
emotion
/ɪˈmoʊʃən/ · noun
Feeling or affect; borrowed through French from a Latin movement family and first used in English for disturbance, agitation, or social movement.
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DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
1 SOURCES WITH A STANCE
A citation is not a vote. Each record says whether the work supports, challenges, contradicts, or contextualizes the position—and identifies the exact locus used.
02 / EDITORIAL STATE
THE QUESTION REMAINS OPEN.
- CONFIDENCE
- proposed
- STATUS
- open
- LEGACY SOURCE SUMMARY
- The reconstruction is cited; a deeper ancestor is not supplied by the reviewed headword sources.
The final node is an explicit knowledge boundary.