exir

Old Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin exīre.

According to Coromines and Pascual, unused by the 15th century, by the end of which Antonio de Nebrija reports a minor use of its imperative, exe/exi, as an interjection for dogs.

Had the word lived on in modern Spanish, it would have yielded *ejir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eˈʃiɾ/

Verb

exir

1. (obsolete) to exit, leave, go out

   Synonym: salir

   • between 1140-1207, anonymous, Cid 1171:

     Non oſan fueras exir nĩ con el ſe aiuntar

     They do not dare go out, nor come across him [the Cid]

Derived terms

• exido

References

• Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “ejido”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 549
• “exir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014