Greek word
egeírō
ἐγείρω
What it means
to waken, i.e. rouse (literally, from sleep, from sitting or lying, from disease, from death
to waken (transitively or intransitively), i.e. rouse (literally, from sleep, from sitting or lying, from disease, from death; or figuratively, from obscurity, inactivity, ruins, nonexistence)
Where it comes from
probably akin to the base of agorá (ἀγορά) (through the idea of collecting one's faculties)