sorhful

== Middle English == === Adjective === sorhful (AB language) alternative form of sorweful == 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. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈsorx.ful/, [ˈsorˠx.ful] === Adjective === sorhful (comparative sorhfulra) full of care or anxiety, careful, anxious sorrowful, mournful, grievous, sad, causing grief or sorrow ==== Declension ==== ==== Descendants ==== Middle English: sorwefulEnglish: sorrowfulMiddle Scots: sorowfull, sorrowfullScots: sorrafu === References === Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “sorhfull”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.