morgen

See also: 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. Doublet of morn.

Noun

morgen (plural morgen or morgens)

1. (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 to 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.’

Further reading

• morgen on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Monger, monger

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Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse morginn, morgunn, from Proto-Germanic *murganaz. Compare Norwegian Bokmål morgen, Swedish morgon, Icelandic morgunn, English morn, morrow, Dutch morgen, and German Morgen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔr.ən/, /ˈmɒːən/, [ˈmɒ̝ːɒ̝n], [ˈmɔːɔn]

Noun

morgen c

1. morning (the part of the day after midnight and before midday)

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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch morgen, from Old Dutch morgan, from Proto-West Germanic *morgin, *murgin, from Proto-Germanic *murganaz, from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥Hko (“to blink, twinkle”).

Cognates:

Compare Low German Morgen, German Morgen, West Frisian moarn, English morn, morrow, Danish morgen, Swedish morgon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔrɣə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: mor‧gen
• Rhymes: -ɔrɣən

Adverb

morgen

1. tomorrow

Derived terms

• morgenochtend

Descendants

• Afrikaans: môre
• Jersey Dutch: mârxje, mârxe, mârge
• Negerhollands: morg, moruk, morgen
  • → Virgin Islands Creole: morek (dated)
• Petjo: morhen

Noun

morgen m (plural morgens, diminutive morgentje n)

1. morning

   Synonym: ochtend

Derived terms

• morgenlicht
• morgenstond

Descendants

• Afrikaans: môre
• Berbice Creole Dutch: moroko
• Negerhollands: morg
• Skepi Creole Dutch: murg, mag, morga

Interjection

morgen

1. Clipping of goedemorgen.

Alternative forms

• mogge, mogguh (eye dialect)

Descendants

• Berbice Creole Dutch: moroko
• Skepi Creole Dutch: murg, mag
• → Arawak: moroko

See also

• (times of day) dagdeel; dageraad/ochtendschemering, zonsopgang/zonsopkomst, ochtend/morgen, voormiddag, middag, namiddag, avond, zonsondergang, avondschemering, nacht, middernacht

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German

Etymology

From Middle High German morgene, from Old High German morgane, from Proto-West Germanic *morgin, *murgin. Cognate with English morrow.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔrɡən/, [ˈmɔʁ-], [ˈmɔɐ̯-], [ˈmɔː-], [-ɡən], [-ɡŋ̍]
• IPA^(key): /mɔrŋ/, /mɔrjən/ (colloquial variants)

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Adverb

morgen

1. tomorrow

   morgen früh ― tomorrow morning

   morgen Abend ― tomorrow evening

Related terms

• Morgen
• übermorgen

Further reading

• “morgen” in Duden online
• “morgen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

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Middle English

Noun

morgen

1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of morwe

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Danish morgen, from Old Norse morginn, morgunn, from Proto-Germanic *murganaz, from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥Hko (“to blink, twinkle”). Compare 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 or morgner, definite plural morgenene or morgnene)

1. morning (the part of the day after midnight and before midday)

Derived terms

• i morgen
• i morges
• morgenkvalme
• morgenkåpe

Related terms

• formiddag

References

• “morgen” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Old English

Alternative forms

• merġen, mergen, margen, meriġen, merien, myrġen

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *morgin, *murgin.

Cognate with Old Frisian morgen, Old Saxon morgan, Old Dutch morgan, Old High German morgan, Old Norse morgunn. Compare also (from the alternative form *murginaz) Old Norse myrginn and Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌲𐌹𐌽𐍃 (maurgins).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmor.ɡen/, [ˈmorˠ.ɣen]

Noun

morgen m

1. morning

   on morgen

   in the morning

2. tomorrow

Declension

Declension of morgen (strong a-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	morgen	morgnas
accusative	morgen	morgnas
genitive	morgnes	morgna
dative	morgne	morgnum

Derived terms

Derived terms

• ǣrmorgen
• *ġiestranmorgen
• morgenċeald
• morgencolla
• morgendæġ
• morgendrenċ
• morgenġiefu
• morgenlang
• morgenlēoht
• morgenlīċ
• morgenmete
• morgenreġn

• morgensēoc
• morgenspell
• morgensprǣċ
• morgensteorra
• morgenswēġ
• morgentīd
• morgentorht
• morgenwacian
• sunnanmorgen
• tō morgne

Descendants

• Middle English: morwe, morȝen, morwen, morn
  • English: morrow; morn
  • Scots: morrow, morra; morn

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898), “morgen”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.