morgen

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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)

  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.’

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Anagrams

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.

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-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

Adverb

morgen

  1. tomorrow

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: môre

Noun

morgen m (plural morgens, diminutive morgentje n)

  1. morning
    Synonym: ochtend

Derived terms

Descendants

Interjection

morgen

  1. Clipping of goedemorgen.

Alternative forms

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German

Pronunciation

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

Adverb

morgen

  1. tomorrow

Further reading

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)

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

Derived terms

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References

Old English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *murganaz, from a pre-Germanic *mr̥kéno ~ *mr̥kóno, from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥Hko (“to blink, twinkle”). 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. morrow, the next day
    tō morgen
    tomorrow

Declension

Declension of morgen
Case Singular Plural
nominative morgen morgnas
accusative morgen morgnas
genitive morgnes morgna
dative morgne, morgen, morgenne morgnum

Derived terms

Derived terms

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Descendants

References

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