Word Origin Summary

Thorn is attested in Old Dutch. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• Deursen-Dennenburg

  Dutch · inherited from

• dorn

  Middle Dutch · inherited from

• Doorning

  Dutch · inherited from

• Doorn

  Dutch · inherited from

• doorn

  Dutch · inherited from

• doring

  Afrikaans · inherited from

• Doornspijk

  Dutch · inherited from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
• 🌳Language family tree — trace connections across related languages
• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root