# morgen
## 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. Doublet of morn and morrow.

### Noun

morgen (plural morgen or morgens)
* (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

## Danish
### 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: /ˈmɔr.ən/, /ˈmɒːən/, [ˈmɒ̝ːɒ̝n], [ˈmɔːɔn]

### Noun

morgen c
* morning (the part of the day after midnight and before midday)

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɔrɣə(n)/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: mor‧gen
* Rhymes: -ɔrɣən

### Adverb

morgen
* 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.

#### Derived terms

* morgenavond
* morgenmiddag
* morgennacht
* morgenochtend

#### Descendants

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

### Noun

morgen m (plural morgens, diminutive morgentje n)
* morning
    Synonym: ochtend

#### Derived terms

* dinsdagmorgen
* donderdagmorgen
* maandagmorgen
* morgengave
* morgenlicht
* morgenster
* morgenstond
* vanmorgen
* vrijdagmorgen
* woensdagmorgen
* zaterdagmorgen
* zondagmorgen

#### Descendants

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

### Interjection

morgen
* Clipping of goedemorgen.

#### Alternative forms

* mogge, mogguh (eye dialect)

#### Descendants

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

#### See also

* dageraad, ochtendschemering
* zonsopgang, zonsopkomst
* ochtend, morgen
* voormiddag
* middag
* namiddag
* avond
* zonsondergang
* avondschemering
* nacht
* middernacht

## German
### 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: /ˈmɔrɡən/, [ˈmɔʁ-], [ˈmɔɐ̯-], [ˈmɔː-], [-ɡən], [-ɡŋ̍]
* IPA: /mɔrŋ/, /mɔrjən/ (colloquial variants)
* Audio (Austria):(file)
* Audio:(file)

### Adverb

morgen
* tomorrow
    morgen früh ― tomorrow morning
    morgen Abend ― tomorrow evening

#### Related terms

* Morgen
* übermorgen

#### Descendants

* → Esperanto: morgaŭ

#### See also

| −3 | −2 | −1 | today | +1 | +2 | +3 |
| vor drei Tagen, vorvorgestern, ehevorgestern | vorgestern | gestern | heute | morgen | übermorgen | in drei Tagen, überübermorgen |

### Further reading

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

## Middle English
### Noun

morgen
* (Early Middle English) Alternative form of morwe

## Norwegian Bokmål
### 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: /ˈmoːrˌən/, [ˈmoːˌɳ̍]

### Noun

morgen m (definite singular morgenen, indefinite plural morgener or morgner, definite plural morgenene or morgnene)
* morning (the part of the day when the night ends and the day begins, dawn)

#### Derived terms

* i morgen
* i morges
* morgenkvalme
* morgenkåpe

#### Related terms

* formiddag

### References

* “morgen” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Old English
### 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: /ˈmor.ɡen/, [ˈmorˠ.ɣen]

### Noun

morgen m
* 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 morgenin the morning
* tomorrow

#### Declension

Strong a-stem:

#### Derived terms

* ǣrmorgen
* *ġiestranmorgen
* morgenċeald
* morgencolla
* morgendæġ
* morgendrenċ
* morgenġiefu
* morgenlang
* morgenlēoht
* morgenlīċ
* morgenmete
* morgenreġn
* morgensēoc
* morgenspell
* morgensprǣċ
* morgensteorra
* morgenswēġ
* morgentīd
* morgentorht
* morgenwacian
* sunnanmorgen
* tō morgne

#### Descendants

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

### References

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