| 1 | English | source | The person, place, or thing from which something ... |
| 2 | Middle English | sours | — |
| 3 | Old French | sorse | rise, beginning, spring, source |
| 4 | Latin | surgere | second-person singular future passive indicative... |
| 5 | Latin | surgo | I rise, get up, I arise; I lift up, I straighten |
| 6 | Latin | subrigo | I lift up, I straighten |
| 7 | Latin | regō | — |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | regō | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | h₃réǵeti | to be straightening, to be setting upright |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₃reǵ- | to straighten, to right oneself; right; just |