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Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *þebōnþorn; compare þefian (“to heat”) and þorn (“thornbush”).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
þefanþorn m (nominative plural þefanþornas)
- The European buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica)
Declension
Declension of þefanþorn (strong a-stem)
Descendants
- Middle English: thevethorn, thefthorne, thethorn, thethorne, theuthorne, thevethorne, thewe-thorn, þefeþorn, þefþorne, þeoveþorn, þifþorn (Early Middle English)
- Middle English: theve (back-formation)
References
- ^ Lloyd, Albert L., Lühr, Rosemarie (1988) “*debandorn, depandorn”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Althochdeutschen (in German), Göttingen/Zürich: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, →ISBN, page 548