Etymograph

English

orienteering

Orienteering comes from Swedish orientering ‘orientation’, from Latin orior ‘to rise, get up’, and ultimately from Proto-Italic *oriōr.

  1. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*oriōr‘to rise, get up’reconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEorior‘to rise, get up’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEorientemnext step skipped: Old French oriant
  4. Frenchc. 1600–presentorient
  5. French, derivedc. 1600–presentorienter‘to orientate’
  6. Swedishmodernorientera‘orient, orientate’
  7. Swedish, derivedmodernorientering‘orientation’
  8. Englishtodayorienteering

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*oriōr‘to rise, get up’reconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEorior‘to rise, get up’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEorientemnext step skipped: Old French oriant
  4. Frenchc. 1600–presentorient
  5. French, derivedc. 1600–presentorienter‘to orientate’
  6. Swedishmodernorientera‘orient, orientate’
  7. Swedish, derivedmodernorientering‘orientation’
  8. Englishtodayorienteering

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- ‘to rise, to spring’

run, ride, earn, irritable, irritate, aborigines, ornithology, erne, orogeny, 13 more

through Proto-Italic *oriōr ‘to rise, get up’

originally, originality, origination, aborigine, 4 more

through Latin orior ‘to rise, get up’

original, abortion, origin, abort, 8 more

Today it means

noun The act of racing across unfamiliar place using a map and compass.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Italic *oriōr / orienteering

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