English
rouse
Rouse comes from Middle English rousen ‘of a hawk: to shake its feathers’.
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500rousen‘of a hawk: to shake its feathers’
- Englishearliest quotation 1531rouse
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500rousen‘of a hawk: to shake its feathers’
- Englishearliest quotation 1531rouse
Earliest quotation: 1531, Thomas Elyot, The Auncient Huntyng of Greekes and Romanes: “[I]f they wold vſe but a fewe nombre of…”
Every English word from Middle English rousen
Today it means
verb To cause (something) to be (more) active or to move; to agitate, to stir up.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle English rousen / rouse