sorhful

Old English

Alternative forms
  • sorgful, sorhfull

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *surgafullaz (“full of care; anxious”), equivalent to sorh +‎ -ful. Cognate with Old High German sorgfol.

Adjective

sorhful

  1. Full of care or anxiety, careful, anxious.
  2. Sorrowful, mournful, grievous, sad, causing grief or sorrow.

Descendants

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