Noun: thorn
| Singular | thorn |
| Plural | thorns |
Sample Sentences
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On the mountains a few junipers and piñons are found, and cactuses, agave, and yuccas, low, fleshy plants with bayonets and thorns. [1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 22:]
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the white thorn
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the cockspur thorn
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There was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Corinthians 12:7:]
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The guilt of empire, all its thorns and cares, / Be only mine. [1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:]
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In Old English manuscripts thorn and eth did not have different phonetic values but were used positionally[.] [1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 175:]
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See also Etymology of ye (definite article).
Nouns inflected like thorn
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English thorn, þorn, from Old English þorn, from Proto-West Germanic *þorn, from Proto-Germanic *þurnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *tr̥nós, from *(s)ter- (“stiff”).
2. Cognates
3. Near cognates include West Frisian toarn, Low German Doorn, Dutch doorn, German Dorn, Danish and Norwegian torn, Swedish torn, törne, Gothic 𐌸𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽𐌿𐍃 (þaurnus). Further cognates include Old Church Slavonic трънъ (trŭnŭ, “thorn”), Russian тёрн (tjorn), Polish cierń, Kamkata-viri taňi, tai (“thorn”), Sanskrit तृण (tṛ́ṇa, “grass”). See: Middle English Nouns '
thorn', Old English Nouns '
þorn', Dutch Nouns '
doorn', German Nouns '
Dorn', Swedish Nouns '
torn', Gothic Nouns '
𐌸𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽𐌿𐍃', Russian Nouns '
тёрн', Polish Nouns '
cierń'.
Verbs referencing "thorn"
Faroese Nouns
torn, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
torn, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
torn, German Nouns
Thorn, German Nouns
Dorn, Icelandic Nouns
þyrnir, Czech Nouns
trn, Slovak Nouns
tŕň, Swedish Nouns
törne, Finnish Nouns
taarna.