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