The story
- Old English · derived fromþorniġ“thorny, full of thorns”
- English todayThornycroft
Habitational surname from a lost or unidentified settlement, from Old English þorniġ (“thorny, full of thorns”) + croft (“croft, enclosed field”).
Words from the same roots
Old Englishþorniġ all →
thorny
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.