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thorn
thorn:
[OE]
Thorn
is an ancient word, which goes all the way back to an Indo-European *
trnus
. The Germanic descendant of this was *
thurnuz
, which evolved into German
dorn
, Dutch
doorn
, Swedish and Danish
torn
, and English
thorn
.