sorhful

Old English

adj
Definitions
  • full of care or anxiety, careful, anxious
  • sorrowful, mournful, grievous, sad, causing grief or sorrow

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Germanic *surgafullaz (anxious, full of care) suffix from Old English sorh.

Origin

Old English

sorh

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