Arise

Part of speech: verb

Pronunciation: /əˈɹaɪz/

Definitions

1. To begin to exist or happen ; to move from lying down or sitting to standing or active position
2. To emerge or result from a source ; to rise from rest after sleeping or sitting
3. To originate or come about ; to stand up or awaken from a previous state of rest

Etymology: The verb "arise" is built from a prefix and an old verb for rising. Its ancestor, Old English "ārīsan", combined "ā-", a prefix meaning "up" or "away", with "rīsan", "to rise", so the word has always carried the sense of getting upward and out of a lower position. That physical meaning, standing up or getting out of bed, is the older one, and the sense of something coming into being or springing from a source grew from it, as in an idea or a problem arising from somewhere. The word has relatives across the Germanic languages. Scots "arise" and "aryse" keep the same meaning, and Gothic "urreisan" shows the same root in a language recorded centuries earlier. Notably, English nearly lost this word's place altogether: in Middle English, "arisen" had to compete with "sourden" and "sorden", borrowed from Old French "sordre" and "sourdre", meaning "to arise, originate, fly up". Those French-derived forms eventually dropped out, leaving the native Germanic word to carry the whole meaning.

Synonyms: emerge, appear, occur, spring, develop

Antonyms: disappear, vanish, dissipate, cease, terminate