Etymology

thornen

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Today it means: Made of or consisting of thorns. Full definition →

Middle English thornen ← Old English þyrnen ← Proto-West Germanic *þurnīn
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*þurnīnaz“of thorns”
  2. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*þurnīn
  3. Old English · inherited fromþyrnen“thorny, of thorns”
  4. Middle English · inherited fromthornen
  5. English todaythornen

From Middle English thornen, from Old English þyrnen (“thorny, of thorns”), from Proto-West Germanic *þurnīn, from Proto-Germanic *þurnīnaz (“of thorns”), equivalent to thorn + -en.

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