Word Origin Summary

Motivation is attested in French. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• motivation

  Danish · borrowed from

• מוטיבציה

  Hebrew · borrowed from

• motivasjon

  Norwegian Nynorsk · derived from

• motivasjon

  Norwegian Bokmål · derived from

• モチベーション

  Japanese · borrowed from

• motivation

  English · derived from

• motivation

  Swedish · derived from

• motivație

  Romanian · borrowed from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
• 🌳Language family tree — trace connections across related languages
• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root