Other forms: arose, arising, arises, arisen
When something arises, it comes into being on its own — a problem, a question, an opportunity, something nobody set out to make. A dispute arises over the bill; a chance arises to move abroad and you take it.
It takes FROM or OUT OF for the cause: costs arising from the delay, injuries arising out of the crash. You meet it in set phrases at work and in contracts — should the need arise, if any difficulties arise, any other business arising. The old physical meaning, to get up or stand up, lives on only in old poetry and old translations, so nobody says they arose at seven. The parts are arise, arose, arisen, and it never takes an object: problems arise, but you do not arise a problem.
1verbariseTo come into existence — of problems, questions, chances and feelings.
“If a problem arises, ring the office.”
2verbcausedTo be caused by something; to follow from it.
“Most of the claims arising from the strike were settled quietly.”
3verbstandTo get up or stand up — old and literary.
“The knight would arise before dawn and ride out.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
Also accepted in games: emerge
Arise is Old English ārīsan — to get up, to rise, to spring from — from Proto-Germanic *uzrīsaną, and it is nothing more than a- fastened to rise. As it took over the abstract sense it drove out an older borrowed verb, Middle English sourden, from Old French sourdre, to arise or originate. Only arise came through.
Proto-Germanic
*uzrīsaną — to rise up, arise
Old English
ārīsan — to arise, get up; rise; spring from, originate; spring up, ascend
Middle English
arisen
English, today
arise
From Middle English arisen, from Old English ārīsan (“to arise, get up; rise; spring from, originate; spring up, ascend”), from Proto-Germanic uzrīsaną (“to rise up, arise”), equivalent to a + rise. Cognate with Scots arise, aryse (“to arise, rise up, come into existence”), Middle Low German errīsen (“to stand up, arise”), Old High German irrīsan (“to rise up, fall”), Gothic 𐌿𐍂𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍃𐌰𐌽 (“to arise”). Eclipsed Middle English sourden, sorden, borrowed from Old French sordre, sourdre (“to arise, originate, fly up”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA