Morgen

 

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Morgen (disambiguation)

Wikipedia

Borrowed from German Morgen.

Morgen (plural Morgens)

1. A surname from German.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Morgen is the 36099^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 621 individuals. Morgen is most common among White (87.76%) individuals.

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Morgen”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 619.

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

• Audio:

  (file)

• Audio:

  (file)

• Audio:

  (file)

From Middle High German morgen, from Old High German morgan, from Proto-West Germanic *morgan, from Proto-Germanic *murganaz, from Proto-Indo-European *merkʷ- (“to blink, twinkle”).

Compare Low German Morgen, Dutch morgen, West Frisian moarn, English morn, morrow, Danish morgen, Swedish morgon.

Morgen m (strong, genitive Morgens, plural Morgen or (colloquial) Morgende)

1. morning (part of the day from dawn to noon)

   Synonym: Vormittag

   am Morgen ― in the morning

   am Morgen des 6. Dezember 2000 ― on the morning of the 6th December 2000

   gestern Morgen (also: gestern morgen) ― yesterday morning

   heute Morgen ― this morning

2. (agriculture, dated) morgen (measure of land equivalent to two acres); (informal) acre (when speaking vaguely), a quarter of a hectare (specific)
3. (archaic, poetic) east (direction of the rising sun at an equinox)

   Synonym: Morgenland

   gen Morgen gehen

   walk in the direction where the sun rises

• The normal plural is unchanged Morgen. The dialectal plural Morgende is formed under the influence of Abende (“evenings”). It is rather common colloquially but hardly ever used in literary German.
• Morgen includes the whole time of day between dawn and noon, though the time roughly between 9 a.m. and noon is often specified as Vormittag.

• → English: morgen
• → Polish: morga, mórg

(times of day) Tageszeit; Morgendämmerung, Morgen, Vormittag, Mittag, Nachmittag (Frühnachmittag, Spätnachmittag), Abenddämmerung, Abend, Nacht, Mitternacht ^{(Category: de:Times of day)}

From the adverb morgen.

Morgen n (strong, genitive Morgen, no plural)

1. tomorrow (the day after today)
2. the future

   Unser Morgen ist wichtiger als unser Heute.

   Our future is more important than our present.

• “Morgen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Morgen” in Duden online
• “Morgen” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
• Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Morgen”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
•   Morgen on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

• Mörgen, Moärgen
• Morren, Morr'n, Morrn

From Middle Low German morgen, from Old Saxon morgan.

Compare German Morgen, Dutch morgen, West Frisian moarn, English morn, morrow, Danish morgen, Swedish morgon.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔrɡn̩/, [mɔˑɾŋ̍], [mɔˑɐ̯ŋ̍]

Morgen m (plural Morgen)

1. morning

• morgens, morrns

• morrn, morr'n, morren

• Der neue SASS: Plattdeutsches Wörterbuch, Plattdeutsch - Hochdeutsch, Hochdeutsch - Plattdeutsch. Plattdeutsche Rechtschreibung, sixth revised edition (2011, →ISBN, Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster)