esmorir

Galician

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /esmoˈɾiɾ/

Verb

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

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “esmorir”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “esmor”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega