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

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

References
  • “esmorir” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “esmor” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
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