The story
- Old English · derived fromǣrist“rising, resurrection”
- Middle English · inherited fromsunneryst
- English todaysunrist
From Middle English sunneryst, from sunne (“sun”) + *rist (“rising”) (as from Old English ǣrist (“rising, resurrection”)), equivalent to sun + arist.
Words from the same roots
Old Englishǣrist all →
arist
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.