From Latin 'movere' (to set in motion), from PIE *mewh1- (to push away) — one of the largest verb families in English.
To change position or place; to prompt or cause to act; an act of changing position, or a step taken in a game or strategy.
From Anglo-Norman 'mover' and Old French 'movoir' (to move, to stir, to set in motion, to arouse), from Latin 'movēre' (to move, to set in motion, to remove, to disturb, to affect emotionally, to influence politically), from PIE *mewh₁- (to push away, to move, to remove). The PIE root *mewh₁- also underlies Sanskrit 'mīvati' (he pushes, he moves), Lithuanian 'mauti' (to move swiftly), and Latin 'mōbilis' (movable, mobile) → English 'mobile,' 'automobile,' 'mobilize.' Latin 'movēre' had exceptional semantic breadth: it described physical displacement, the movement of armies
Latin 'movēre' produced one of the largest word families in English, spanning physical motion ('move'), emotions ('emotion' — literally being moved inwardly), reasons for action ('motive'), and even the cinema ('movies,' short for 'moving pictures'). The word 'movie' is an American English coinage from about 1912.