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I think that’s a false cognate: in French, sortir means to leave or go/take out. Trier is means to sort or classify.

• jdmichal 8y ago
  The meaning you listed seems to correlate across many Romance languages and caused me to start looking deeper. I found an Anglo-Norman dictionary [0], which lists meanings very much in line with those listed at Etymonline [1]. I can't explain the difference... The listed Latin root seems to allow the noted Anglo-Norman and later English meaning [2]. But modern Romance languages seem to have standardized a meaning similar to what you mention. There does seem to be widely-attested noun forms like French sorte, Italian sorta with a meaning along the lines of "type" or "kind". [0] http://www.anglo-norman.net/gate/ http://www.anglo-norman.net/gate/ [1] http://www.anglo-norman.net/D/sortir http://www.anglo-norman.net/D/sortir [2] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sortior#Latin https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sortior#Latin