Etymology

arouse

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Today it means: To stimulate or induce (feelings); pique. Full definition →

English rouse ← Middle English rousen ← Old English ā-
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*ud-s-?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₂u-s-?
  3. Proto-Germanic*uz-
  4. Proto-West Germanic*uʀ-
  5. Old Englishar-
  6. Old Englishā-
  7. Middle Englisha-
  8. Englisha-
  9. Middle Englishrousen
  10. Englishrouse
  11. English todayarouse

From a- + rouse.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.