soreness

The story

1. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*sairanassī
2. Old English · inherited fromsārnes“bodily pain; mental pain, affliction, grief”
3. Middle English · inherited fromsornes
4. English todaysoreness

From Middle English sornes, sornesse, sarnesse, from Old English sārnes (“bodily pain; mental pain, affliction, grief”), from Proto-West Germanic *sairanassī, equivalent to sore + -ness. Cognate with Scots sairness (“soreness”), Old Frisian sērnisse, sērnesse (“injury, lesion”), Middle Low German sêrnisse, sêrenisse (“wounding, injury, distress, need”).