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orir (c.1240)
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orir (c.1240)

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  FEW:  oriri 7,416b Gdf: ∅ GdfC: ∅ TL: orir 1285 DEAF:  orir  DMF: ∅ TLF: ∅ OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS:  oriri 2056a

The word is unique to this attestation, and appears to be the result of a mistranslation of the Latin orare (‘to pray’) in the source text. Latin oriri otherwise does not seem to have produced a vernacular form, either in French or in English.

v.intrans.

to rise (up): 
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  Kar il la (= the saint) vit a l'heir ester Ne ren de lui a terre tucher. Ben de la terre orir la vith, Com ceo fust un espirith Ke de terre n'ust point afere (Latin: Vidit enim eam a terra cubito uno sublatam in aere pendentem orare)  Mir N-D 56.280

[gdw]

See also:

orient  oriental  original  originalment  orine1  orinel 
This is an AND2 Phase 4 (N-O/U-P-Q) entry. © 2013-17 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. All rights reserved. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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