Arising

How to spell arising

7 letters · 3 syllables

How to pronounce arising

Say the part in capitals loudest.

What does arising mean?

1. verbComing into existence, becoming apparent, or resulting from a particular situation.

Arising in a sentence

• The committee discussed any issues arising from the new policy.

• Costs arising from the delay were charged to the supplier.

Where does arising come from?

Language of origin: Germanic

This is the present participle of the verb 'arise', which descends from the Old English arisan, a compound of the intensive prefix a-, broadly meaning 'up' or 'forth', and risan, 'to rise' or 'to go up'. The root risan belongs to a wide Germanic family, with close cousins in Old Norse and Old High German that all carried the sense of moving upward or getting to one's feet. In its earliest English use 'arise' described physical rising, such as a person standing up or smoke going up, before it broadened to the abstract sense of something coming into being or emerging, as in problems or opportunities. The spelling keeps the single 's' of the old root, which is the chief trap, since writers sometimes expect a doubled letter; the silent single 'e' of 'rise' is dropped before the -ing ending, giving 'arising' rather than 'ariseing'. The same risan root still lives on plainly in the everyday words 'rise' and 'raise'.

How the word is built

• a- (Old English intensive prefix)
• rise (root: to go up)
• -ing (present participle)