morgen

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.

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.’

• morgen on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Monger, monger

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.

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

morgen c

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

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”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔrɣə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: mor‧gen
• Rhymes: -ɔrɣən

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.

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

morgen m (plural morgens, diminutive morgentje n)

1. morning

   Synonym: ochtend

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

morgen

1. clipping of goedemorgen

• mogge, mogguh (eye dialect)

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

• morgn

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

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

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morgen

1. tomorrow

   morgen früh ― tomorrow morning

   morgen Abend ― tomorrow evening

• Morgen
• übermorgen

• → Esperanto: morgaŭ

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

morgen

1. (Early Middle English) alternative form of morwe

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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmoːrˌən/, [ˈmoːˌɳ̍]

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)

• i morgen
• i morges
• morgenkvalme
• morgenkåpe

• formiddag

• “morgen” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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

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).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmor.ɡen/, [ˈmorˠ.ɣen]

morgen m

1. morning
   • The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

     An. DCLXXVIII Hēr atēowede comēta se steorra on Auguste ⁊ sċān III monðas ælċe morgen swilċe sunne bēam.

     Year 678 In this year a comet star appeared in August and shone like a sunbeam each morning for three months.

   on morgen

   in the morning

2. tomorrow

Strong a-stem:

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

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “morgen”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.