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

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