An archaic or dialectal form meaning to raise up or lift, often used in old English texts.
From Middle English araisen, combining the prefix 'a-' (meaning 'to') with 'raise' (from Old Norse reisa). The 'a-' prefix was common in Old English verb formation but fell out of use by the modern era.
English used to love adding 'a-' to verbs to show action in progress—'arise,' 'awake,' 'amaze'—but we dropped this habit around the 1600s, which is why 'araise' sounds so strange to modern ears.
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