おる in honorific contexts


Usually, we're told that おる is a humble verb, and that mostly holds true. But
sometimes I see it conjugated to a light honorific form おられる, usually when
talking about someone to whom respect must be shown rather than to them. I'd
like to ask how this comes about.




Technically speaking, it's not a Standard Japanese. But おる is a normal verb in
many dialects in western Japan, and the speakers in those regions won't
consider おられる really unnatural. Recently, it has infiltrated into the east as
well.

