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 and morrow.

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, HarperCollins, published 1993, 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

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)

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

   Ik zie je morgen op school. ― I'll see you at school tomorrow.

   We gaan morgen naar de film. ― We're going to the movies tomorrow.

   Morgen is het haar verjaardag. ― Tomorrow is her birthday.

Derived terms

• morgenavond
• 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
• → Lokono: moroko

See also

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

German

Alternative forms

• morgn

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

Descendants

• → Esperanto: morgaŭ

See also

-3	-2	-1	today	+1	+2	+3
vor drei Tagen, vorvorgestern, ehevorgestern	vorgestern	gestern	heute	morgen	übermorgen	in drei Tagen, überübermorgen

Further reading

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

Middle English

Noun

morgen

1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of morwe

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): /ˈmoːrˌən/, [ˈmoːˌɳ̍]

Noun

morgen m (definite singular morgenen, indefinite plural morgener or morgner, definite plural morgenene or morgnene)

1. morning (the part of the day when the night ends and the day begins, dawn)

Derived terms

• i morgen
• i morges
• morgenkvalme
• morgenkåpe

Related terms

• formiddag

References

• “morgen” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Old English

Alternative forms

• margen — Mercian
• merġen, mergen, 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.