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Icelandic
Pronunciation
Noun
þorn n (genitive singular þorns, nominative plural þorn)
- The name of the Latin-script letter Þ/þ.
Declension
Middle English
Noun
þorn
- Alternative form of thorn
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *þornu (“thorn, sloe”).
Cognates
Germanic cognates include
Old Saxon thorn (
Low German Dorn,
Doorn),
Dutch doorn,
Old High German thorn (
German Dorn),
Old Norse þorn (
Swedish törne),
Gothic 𐌸𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽𐌿𐍃 (þaurnus). The Indo-European root is also the source of
Old Church Slavonic трънъ (trŭnŭ) (
Russian тёрн (tjorn,
“sloe, blackthorn”),
Slovak tŕň),
Sanskrit तृण (tṛṇa,
“grass”).
Pronunciation
Noun
þorn m
- thorn
- thorny bush
- the runic character ᚦ (/θ/ or /ð/)
- the letter Þ, þ (/θ/ or /ð/)
Declension
Declension of þorn (strong a-stem)
Derived terms
Descendants
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *þurnuz, whence also Old English þorn. From Proto-Indo-European *tr̥nós from *(s)ter- (“stiff”).
Noun
þorn m (genitive þorns, plural þornar)
- (botany) thorn (= þyrnir m)
- spike, esp. the tongue of a buckle, pin of a brooch
þornar ok þistlar- thorns and thistles
- The letter Þ, þ
Declension
Declension of þorn (strong a-stem)
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- þorn in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.