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Vasmer marks the word as unclear. According to one theory, from *d(ъ)vigъ(“branching, buttress serving as lever”), from *d(ъ)va(“2”) + *-igъ. (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?) Compare GermanZweig(“branch < branching”), from Zwei(“2”).
Church Slavonic: *двищи(*dvišti), двигомꙑ(dvigomy) (Russian) (1389)
Further reading
Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “двигать”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1978), “*dvig(a)ti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 5 (*dělo – *dьržьlь), Moscow: Nauka, page 168
References
^ Olander, Thomas (2001) “dvigati: dvižǫ dvižetь”, in Common Slavic Accentological Word List, Copenhagen: Editiones Olander: “a (PR 133)”