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esmovoir
esmovoir
Old French
Alternative forms
Verb
esmovoir
- (transitive) to move (cause to move)
- 1303, Bernard de Gordon, Fleur de lis de medecine (a.k.a. lilium medicine):
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Item tu dois scavoir que les humeurs s’esmeuvent en diverses heures pour cause de la racine de hault et de bas.
- Also you must know that the humors moves at various times because of the root from the top [of the body] to the bottom
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Item tu dois scavoir que les humeurs s’esmeuvent en diverses heures pour cause de la racine de hault et de bas.
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- (transitive) to move (cause emotion)
Conjugation
This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has a stressed present stem esmuev distinct from the unstressed stem esmov, 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 esmovoir (see also Appendix:Old French verbs)
| simple | compound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | esmovoir | avoir esmeü, es meu | |||||
| gerund | en esmovant | Use the gerund of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| present participle | esmovant | ||||||
| past participle | esmeü, es meu | ||||||
| person | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
| simple tenses |
present | esmuef | esmues | esmuet | esmovons | esmovez | esmuevent |
| imperfect | esmovoie, esmoveie | esmovoies, esmoveies | esmovoit, esmoveit | esmoviiens, esmoviens | esmoviiez, esmoviez | esmovoient, esmoveient | |
| preterite | esmui | esmeüs | esmut | esmeümes | esmeüstes | esmurent | |
| future | esmovrai | esmovras | esmovra | esmovrons | esmovroiz, esmovreiz, esmovrez | esmovront | |
| conditional | esmovroie, esmovreie | esmovroies, esmovreies | esmovroit, esmovreit | esmovriiens, esmovriens | esmovriiez, esmovriez | esmovroient, esmovreient | |
| compound tenses |
present perfect | Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| past anterior | Use the preterite tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| future perfect | Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| conditional perfect | Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| subjunctive | que jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | |
| simple tenses |
present | esmueve | esmueves | esmueve | esmovons | esmovez | esmuevent |
| imperfect | esmeüsse | esmeüsses | esmeüst | esmeüssons, esmeüssiens | esmeüssoiz, esmeüssez, esmeüssiez | esmeüssent | |
| compound tenses |
past | Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | |||||
| pluperfect | Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle | ||||||
| imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
| — | esmuef | — | esmovons | esmovez | — | ||
Related terms
Descendants
References
- (fr) Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (esmovoir)
- esmoveir on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub