Dorn

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Dorn (plural Dorns)

1. A surname.

From Middle High German dorn, from Old High German dorn, from Proto-West Germanic *þornu, from Proto-Germanic *þurnuz, from Proto-Indo-European *tr̥nós, from *(s)ter- (“stiff”). Compare Low German Doorn; Durn (Mecklenburgisch-Vorpommersch); Däörn (Münsterländisch), Dutch doorn, English thorn, Danish torn, Gothic 𐌸𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌽𐌿𐍃 (þaurnus).

• IPA^(key): /dɔʁn/, [dɔʁn], [dɔɐ̯n]
• Rhymes: -ɔʁn

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Dorn m (mixed or strong, genitive Dornes or Dorns, plural Dornen or (colloquial) Dörner or (jargon) Dorne, diminutive Dörnchen n or Dörnlein n)

1. (botany, also figuratively) thorn (with plural Dornen or Dörner)

   Ein Kaktus hat keine Stacheln, sondern Dornen, während eine Rose keine Dornen, sondern Stacheln hat.

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2. (botany, poetic) thornbush; clipping of Dornbusch. (with plural Dorne)
3. (engineering) bolt (with plural Dorne)

• Rosendorn (“rose thorn”)

• dornenartig, dornig, dornlos

• Undorn, Hülsdorn, Weißdorn
• Dornbusch, Dornenbusch, Dorngesträuch, Dornenstrauch
• Dorn im Auge, keine Rose ohne Dornen

• “Dorn” in Duden online
• “Dorn” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Dorn” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Dorn” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.

• IPA^(key): /tɔn/

Dorn m (plural Derner, diminutive Dernche)

1. thorn

• Piter Kehoma Boll (2021) “Dorn”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português (in Portuguese), 3rd edition, Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 37