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名詞

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

アナグラム

• Monger, monger

語源

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).

発音

• IPA: /ˈmor.ɡen/, [ˈmorˠ.ɣen]

名詞

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

語形変化

Strong a-stem:

派生語

派生した語

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

参照

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