Middle English thorny

← Old English þorniġ (inherited)

← English þorny (alter)

← English þorni (alter)

← English thornye (alter)

← English thornee (alter)

← English thorny (link)

← Middle English thorn (affix)

← Middle English -y (affix)

← Proto-West Germanic *þornag (inherited)

→ English thorny (inherited)