reren
Middle English
/ˈrɛːrən/, /ˈreːrən/
verb
Definitions
- To raise; to hold or pull up or suspend upwards:
- To construct or make; to cause the construction of something:
- To create, or generate something:
- To collect money, taxes or fines; to enforce taxation.
- To call up or draft soldiers; to form an army.
- To encourage, popularise or spread; to enhance or extol.
- To help or aid; to nurse, heal or make hale.
- To unfurl a symboled piece of fabric or a standard.
- (rare) To protest; to refuse to work.
Etymology
Inherited from Old English rǣran (raise, create, cause to rise, stir up, rear, set upright, give rise to, exalt, excite, build, promote, arouse, begin, rouse) derived from Proto-Germanic *raisijaną.
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*raisijaną
Gloss
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- corear English
- rear English
- rearer English
- reareth English
- rearfoot English
- rearguard English
- rearing English
- rearmost English
- rearseat English
- rearset English
- rearsight English
- rearview English
- rearward English
- rearwards English
- reremouse English
- uprear English
- *raisijaną Proto-Germanic
- *raizijaną Proto-Germanic
- *rīsaną Proto-Germanic
- リア Japanese
- リヤカー Japanese
- hrēremūs Old English
- rǣran Old English
- mous Middle English
- reremous Middle English
- rerer Middle English
- reryng Middle English
- rerynge Middle English
- reisa Old Norse