Etymology
1. O.E.
risan (usually
arisan; class I strong verb; past tense
ras, pp.
risen), from P.Gmc.
*us-risanan "to go up" (cf. O.N.
risa, Goth.
urreisan "to rise," O.H.G.
risan "to rise, flow," Ger.
reisen "to travel," originally "to rise for a journey"). Related to
raise (q.v.). The noun meaning "upward movement" is from 1573; the meaning "a piece of rising ground" is from 1639. Phrase to
get a rise out of (someone) (1834) is a metaphor from angling (1651).
Riser "upright part of a step" is from 1771.
2. From Middle English risen, from Old English rīsan, from Proto-West Germanic *rīsan, from Proto-Germanic *rīsaną (“to rise”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rey- (“to arise, rise”). According to Kroonen (2013), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- (“to rise, spring”). See also raise.
3. Cognates
4. Cognate with Dutch rijzen (“to rise”), German reisen (“to fall”), Limburgish rieze (“to rise”), Faroese and Icelandic rísa (“to rise”), Norwegian Nynorsk risa, rise (“to rise”), Gothic *𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍃𐌰𐌽 (*reisan, “to rise”) (whence 𐌿𐍂𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍃𐌰𐌽 (urreisan, “to arise”)). Non-Germanic cognates include Cornish ardh (“height”), Irish arad, ard, árd (“high, tall”), Manx ard (“high, tall”), Scottish Gaelic àrd (“high”), Welsh ardd (“hill, upland”), Latin orior (“to rise”), Ancient Greek ἔρις (éris, “quarell, strife; contention, rivalry”) (whence Greek έριδα (érida, “feud”)), Albanian rashë (“to have fallen; to have flopped”), Bulgarian ръст (răst, “size; stature; growth”), Czech růst (“growth”), Macedonian раст (rast, “growth, height”), Polish rost, wzrost (“growth”), Russian рост (rost, “growth”), Serbo-Croatian ра̑ст, rȃst (“growth”), Slovene rȃst (“growth”), Old Armenian յառնեմ (yaṙnem, “to arise, rise”) (whence Armenian հառնել (haṙnel, “to rise up”)), Persian رمبیدن (rombidan, “to collapse”), Tocharian A ar- (“to evoke”), Tocharian B er- (“to evoke”), Hittite 𒀀𒊏𒀀𒄑𒍣 (arāwanzi, “to rise”), Sanskrit ऋ (ṛ, “to rise”). See: Middle English '
risen', Proto-Germanic '
*rīsaną', Dutch '
rijzen', German, old spelling '
reisen', Norwegian, nynorsk '
risa', Cornish '
ardh', Latin '
orior', Classical Armenian '
յառնեմ', Armenian '
հառնել', Sanskrit '
ऋ'.
Verbs referencing "rise"
Norwegian, nynorsk
risa, Danish
rejse.