esmorir

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Galician

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Etymology

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13th century. Probably from Latin *exmorī, from ex + morior (I die); but compare Old English smorian (to choke, suffocate).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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esmorir

  1. (intransitive, archaic) to faint
    • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 308:
      Et seýosselle tãto sange que c[a]eu esmorido, et coydarõ todas suas cõpañas que era morto
      And he loss so much blood that he collapsed to the ground, faint, and all of his troopers thought that he was dead

Conjugation

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References

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  • Ernesto González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (20062022) “esmorir”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
  • Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (20062018) “esmor”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG