The story
- Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*sairaganassī
- Old English · inherited fromsāriġnes
- Middle English · inherited fromsorinesse
- English todaysorriness
From Middle English sorinesse, from Old English sāriġnes, from Proto-West Germanic *sairaganassī, *sairīganassī; equivalent to sorry + -ness. Cognate with West Frisian searigens (“soreness, tenderness”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.