morgen
English
Etymology
From Dutch morgen and German Morgen, both literally "morning", probably originally indicated the amount of land that can be ploughed by a team of oxen in a morning.
Noun
morgen (plural morgen or morgens)
- (chiefly historical) A unit of measurement of land in the Netherlands and the Dutch colonies and parts of the United States, where it was equivalent two about two acres; and in Denmark, Norway, and Germany, where it was equivalent to about two-thirds of an acre. Now used informally in Germany to mean one quarter of a hectare. [from 17th c.]
- 1969, Doris Lessing, The Four-Gated City, 1993 edition, HarperCollins, page 68:
- ‘All my life spent hating a poor little tyrant on a few morgen of poor soil, and he'd never known anything else.’
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Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse morginn, morgunn, from Proto-Germanic *murganaz, from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥Hko (“to blink, twinkle”). Compare Norwegian Bokmål morgen, Swedish morgon, Icelandic morgunn, English morn, morrow, Low German Morgen, West Frisian moarn, Dutch morgen, German Morgen.
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch morgen, from Old Dutch morgan, from Proto-Germanic *murganaz, from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥Hko (“to blink, twinkle”). Compare Low German Morgen, German Morgen, West Frisian moarn, English morn, morrow, Danish morgen, Swedish morgon.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɔrɣə(n)/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: mor‧gen
- Rhymes: -ɔrɣən
Synonyms
Derived terms
- morgenlicht
- morgenstond
Related terms
See also
- (times of day) dagdeel; dageraad/ochtendschemering, zonsopgang/zonsopkomst, ochtend/morgen, voormiddag, middag, namiddag, avond, zonsondergang, avondschemering, nacht, middernacht
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɔrɡən/, [ˈmɔʁ-], [ˈmɔɐ̯-], [ˈmɔː-], [-ɡən], [-ɡŋ̍]
- IPA(key): /mɔrŋ/, /mɔrjən/ (colloquial variants)
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Related terms
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse morginn, morgunn, from Proto-Germanic *murganaz, from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥Hko (“to blink, twinkle”). Compare Danish morgen, Swedish morgon, Icelandic morgunn, English morn, morrow, Dutch morgen, German Morgen.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈmɔːrˌən/, [ˈmɔːˌɳ̍]
Noun
morgen m (definite singular morgenen, indefinite plural morgener, definite plural morgenene)
- morning (the part of the day after midnight and before midday)
Derived terms
Related terms
See also
- morgon (Nynorsk)
Old English
Alternative forms
- mergen, merigen
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *murganaz, from a pre-Germanic *mr̥kéno, *mr̥kóno, from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥Hko (“to blink, twinkle”). Cognate with Old Saxon morgan (Low German Morgen and Morrn or Morren), West Frisian moarn, Dutch morgen, Old High German morgan (German Morgen), Old Norse morghon (Danish morgen, Swedish morgon), Old Norse morginn, morgunn; compare also (from a variant Germanic base) Old Norse myrginn, Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌲𐌹𐌽𐍃 (maurgins).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmorɡen/, [ˈmorɣen]
Noun
morgen m
Declension
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
nominative | morgen | morgnas |
accusative | morgen | morgnas |
genitive | morgnes | morgna, morgena |
dative | morgne, morgen, morge(n)ne | morgnum |
Synonyms
- morgendæg
- (morning): morgenleōht
Derived terms
- ǣrmorgen
- morgenceald
- morgencolla
- morgendæg
- morgendrenc
- morgengifu
- morgenlang
- morgenleōht
- morgenlīc
- morgenmete
- morgenregn
- morgenseōc
- morgenspell
- morgensprǣc
- morgensteorra
- morgenswēg
- morgentīd
- morgentorht
- morgenwacian
References
- "morgen" in Bosworth & Toller's Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (1882), Oxford: Clarendon Press.