morgen

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

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)

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”).

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.

Noun

morgen m (plural morgens, diminutive morgentje n)

1. morning

   Synonym: ochtend

Interjection

morgen

1. Clipping of goedemorgen.

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)

• Audio (Austria):

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Adverb

morgen

1. tomorrow

   morgen früh ― tomorrow morning

   morgen Abend ― tomorrow evening

Further reading

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

Noun

morgen

1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of morwe

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)

References

• “morgen” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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
   • 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

References

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