thorn – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of thorn

Noun: thorn
Sg.thorn
Pl.thornes

Genitive

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • and ſo ıḣc wente out berynge a crowne of þoꝛnes ⁊ a clooþ of purpur / And he ſeiþ to hem / lo þe man (Then Jesus exited wearing a crown of thorns and purple clothing, and [Pilate] said to them, "See, the man!") [c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Joon 19:5, folio 53, verso, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:]

Nouns inflected like thorn

wheston, scarth, scough, schour, scherd, scheld, schalk, schaft, smythy, bombard, bochous, hereditament, syngyng, peretre, bastard, conquest, comaundour, patroun, pacient, playing, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

Inherited from Old English þorn, from Proto-West Germanic *þorn, from Proto-Germanic *þurnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *tr̥nós. See: Old English Nouns 'þorn', Old English Nouns 'þorn'.

Verbs referencing "thorn"

English Nouns thorn, German Nouns Thorn.

Translations