myrginn

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Old Norse

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *murginaz (morning). Cognate with Old English myrġen, morgen; Old Frisian morgen; Old Saxon morgan; Old High German morgan; Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌲𐌹𐌽𐍃 (maurgins). See also Finnish murkina. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *merkʷ- (to blink, twinkle).

Noun

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myrginn m (genitive myrgins, plural myrgnar or myrnar)

  1. morning

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Danish: morgen
  • Faroese: morgun
  • Icelandic: morgunn
  • Norwegian Bokmål: morgen
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: morgon
  • Swedish: morgon

References

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  • myrginn”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press