thorn

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. A modified branch that is hard and sharp like a spike.
2. Any thorn-like structure on plants, such as the spine and the prickle.
3. Any shrub or small tree that bears thorns, especially a hawthorn.
4. (figuratively) That which pricks or annoys; anything troublesome.
5. A letter of Latin script (capital: Þ, small: þ), borrowed from the futhark; today used only in Icelandic to represent the voiceless dental fricative, but originally used in several early Germanic scripts, including Old English where it represented the dental fricatives that are today written th (Old English did not have phonemic voicing distinctions for fricatives).

Verb

To pierce with, or as if with, a thorn (sharp pointed object).

Conceptos

espina

aguijón

pincho

púa

punzón

zarza

planta espinosa

púa vegetal

thorn

acacia

espinga

espino

abrojo

espícula

irritación

Sinónimos

prickle

spine

spike

splinter

barb

needle

prick

sticker

pin

thistle

stab

fishbone

sting

pierce

brier

spikelet

pricker

thornbush

prod

assassinate

quill

briar

acantha

hook

🪝

hurt

irritant

shot

sliver

spear

spit

spur

tab

thrust

tine

tip

wattle

thorny plant

biting words

acanthae

aculeus

prickly plant

acacia

spina spinae

arrow

bristle

burr

cleat

fin

fishbones

fix

Traducciones

épine

Dorn

spina

doorn

αγκάθι

espina

Stachel

aculeo

espinho

piquant

spina

stekel

acúleo

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/θɔːn/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: thorn

Heredado de inglés antiguo: þorn

Cognado con frisón occidental: toarn

Cognado con bajo alemán: Doorn

Cognado con neerlandés: doorn

Cognado con alemán: Dorn

Cognado con danés: -

Cognado con noruego: -

Cognado con sueco: torn

Cognado con gótico: 𐌸𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽𐌿𐍃

Cognado con eslavo eclesiástico: трънъ

Cognado con ruso: тёрн

Cognado con polaco: cierń

Cognado con Kati: taňi

Cognado con sánscrito: तृण

In summary

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”).
Cognates
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”).