different between morgan vs morgen

English

Etymology

Named for Thomas Hunt Morgan.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m????n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m????n/
• Hyphenation: mor?gan

Noun

morgan (plural morgans)

1. (medicine) A unit for expressing the relative distance between genes on a chromosome.

Derived terms

• centimorgan

Anagrams

• Garmon, Gorman, garmon, mongra

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *morgin.

Noun

morgan m

1. morning

Derived terms

• morganstern

Descendants

• Middle High German: morgen
  • Alemannic German: moorn, moore, moore

    Alsatian: Müggen

    Swabian: Morga, Moriga

    Walser: morge

  • Bavarian: Morgen, Muagn, Muang

    Cimbrian: mòrng, morgan, mòrgont

    Mòcheno: morng

  • Central Franconian:

    Hunsrik: Meuend

    Luxembourgish: Mueren, Moien

  • German: Morgen
    • ? English: morgen
  • Hessian: Mojje
  • Vilamovian: miügia
  • Yiddish: ??????? (morgn)

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *morgin.

Noun

morgan m

1. morning

Descendants

• Middle Low German: morgen
  • German Low German: Mörgen
  • German Low German: Morgen, Morrn
  • Dutch Low Saxon: morgen, morren

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.

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.]

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^(key): [?m???n]

Noun

morgen c

1. 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 *mr?Hko (“to blink, twinkle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?r??(n)/
• Hyphenation: mor?gen
• Rhymes: -?r??n

Adverb

morgen

1. tomorrow

Derived terms

• morgenochtend

Descendants

• Afrikaans: môre

Noun

morgen m (plural morgens, diminutive morgentje n)

1. morning

   Synonym: ochtend

Derived terms

• morgenlicht
• morgenstond

Descendants

• Afrikaans: môre

Interjection

morgen

1. Clipping of goedemorgen.

Alternative forms

• mogge, mogguh (eye dialect)

See also

• (times of day) dagdeel; dageraad/ochtendschemering, zonsopgang/zonsopkomst, ochtend/morgen, voormiddag, middag, namiddag, avond, zonsondergang, avondschemering, nacht, middernacht

German

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?r??n/, [?m??-], [?m???-], [?m??-], [-??n], [-???]
• IPA^(key): /m?r?/, /m?rj?n/ (colloquial variants)

Adverb

morgen

1. tomorrow

Related terms

• Morgen
• übermorgen

Further reading

• “morgen” in Duden online

Middle English

Noun

morgen

1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of morwe

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse morginn, morgunn, from Proto-Germanic *murganaz, from Proto-Indo-European *mr?Hko (“to blink, twinkle”). Compare Danish morgen, Swedish morgon, Icelandic morgunn, English morn, morrow, Dutch morgen, German Morgen.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /?m??r??n/, [?m?????]

Noun

morgen m (definite singular morgenen, indefinite plural morgener or morgner, definite plural morgenene or morgnene)

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

Derived terms

• i morgen
• i morges
• morgenkvalme
• morgenkåpe

Related terms

• formiddag

See also

• morgon (Nynorsk)

References

• “morgen” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Old English

Alternative forms

• mer?en, mergen, margen, meri?en, merien, myr?en

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 ???????????????????????????????? (maurgins).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mor.?en/, [?mor?.?en]

Noun

morgen m

1. morning

2. morrow, the next day

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• Middle English: morwe, mor?en, 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.