þornig

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *þurnugaz, equivalent to þorn +‎ -iġ.

Adjective

þorniġ

thorny, full of thorns.

Descendants

Middle English: þorni, þorny, thorny
- English: thorny
- Scots: thorny

References

þornig in Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary

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