Messing
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From the Old English personal name Mæcca + -ing (“belonging to”).[1]
Proper noun[edit]
Messing
- A village in Messing-cum-Inworth parish, Colchester district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL8918).
Derived terms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
Borrowed from German Messing (“brass”), a metonymic occupational surname for a brazier.
Proper noun[edit]
Messing (plural Messings)
- A surname from German.
Statistics[edit]
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Messing is the 12289th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2530 individuals. Messing is most common among White (92.69%) individuals.
Further reading[edit]
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Messing”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 580.
References[edit]
- ^ "Key to English Place Names". Key to English Place Names- Worth Kent. University of Nottingham.
German[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle High German messinc, from Proto-West Germanic *massing.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
Messing n (strong, genitive Messings, no plural)
Declension[edit]
Declension of Messing [sg-only, neuter, strong]
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- Kroonen, Guus (2013) “masjinga”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 356
Further reading[edit]
- “Messing” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Messing” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Messing” in Duden online
- Messing on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
- “Messing” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
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