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thornen

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
thor-nen
IPA
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Made of or consisting of thorns.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

Etymology

From Middle English thornen, from Old English þyrnen (“thorny, of thorns”), from Proto-West Germanic *þurnīn, from Proto-Germanic *þurnīnaz (“of thorns”), equivalent to thorn + -en.

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Inflected Forms

more thornen (comparative) most thornen (superlative)

Questions

What does thornen mean?
Made of or consisting of thorns.
Where does thornen come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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