thorn

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /θɔːn/    美 /θoɹn/|[θo̞ɹn]

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
    — On the mountains a few junipers and piñons are found, and cactuses, agave, and yuccas, low, fleshy plants with bayonets and thorns.
  3. Any shrub or small tree that bears thorns, especially a hawthorn.
    — the white thorn
  4. That which pricks or annoys; anything troublesome. figuratively
    — There was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me.
  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).
    — In Old English manuscripts thorn and eth did not have different phonetic values but were used positionally[.]
动词 v.
  1. To pierce with, or as if with, a thorn (sharp pointed object).
    — […] human nature is, above all things, lazy, and needs to be thorned and goaded up those heights where it ought to fly.

词形变化

thorns plural þorn alternative thorns present,singular,third-person thorning participle,present thorned participle,past thorned past þorn alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
bastard umbrella thorn bethorned blackthorn boxthorn buckthorn buffalo thorn camelthorn Christ's thorn crucifixion thorn desert-thorn Egyptian thorn every rose has a thorn every rose has its thorn fairy thorn firethorn garland thorn giraffe thorn Glastonbury thorn goat's thorn hookthorn Jerusalem thorn Karoo thorn knobthorn maythorn monkey thorn Mysore thorn no rose without a thorn Osage thorn sandthorn September thorn sweet thorn thorn apple thorn-apple crystal thornback thornbill thornbird thorn broom thornbush thorn cluster thorn devil thornen thornery thornfish thorn forest thornhead thornhog thorn hopper thorn in one's side thorn in someone's side thorn in the flesh thornless thornlet thornlike thornproof thorntail Thornton thorn-tree thorn tree thornveld thorny umbrella thorn whitethorn yellowthorn

词源

词源 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”).
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”).
词源 2
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”).
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