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morginn

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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 morġen, 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).

Pronunciation

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  • (12th century Icelandic) IPA(key): /ˈmõrɣɪ̃nː/

Noun

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morginn m (genitive morgins, plural morgnar)

  1. morning
    • Saga Hákonar, Guttorms ok Inga 9, in 1835, F. Magnússon, C. C. Rafn, Fornmanna sögur, Volume IX. Copenhagen, page 21:
      [] betra þikki mér at hafa í nótt XIV skútur til bæjarins, en hálfu fleiri á myrgun.
      [] better methinks to have fourteen sailboats here at night, but a half more in the morning.

Declension

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Declension of morginn (strong a-stem)
masculine singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative morginn morginninn morgnar, mornar morgnarnir, mornarnir
accusative morgin morgininn morgna, morna morgnana, mornana
dative morgni, morni morgninum, morninum morgnum, mornum morgnunum, mornunum
genitive morgins morginsins morgna, morna morgnanna, mornanna

Note the dropping of "g" in the plural and dative singular forms

Derived terms

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Descendants

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Further reading

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  • Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “morginn”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, page 434
  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “morginn”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 301; also available at the Internet Archive