þorn
Icelandic edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
þorn n (genitive singular þorns, nominative plural þorn)
- The name of the Latin-script letter Þ.
Declension edit
Middle English edit
Noun edit
þorn
- Alternative form of thorn
Old English edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
Noun edit
þorn m
Declension edit
Declension of þorn (strong a-stem)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Old Norse edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *þurnuz, whence also Old English þorn. From Proto-Indo-European *tr̥nós from *(s)ter- (“stiff”).
Noun edit
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 edit
Declension of þorn (strong a-stem)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
References edit
- þorn in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.