morn

From Middle English morn, from Old English morgen, from Proto-West Germanic *morgan, *morgin, from Proto-Germanic *murganaz, *murginaz, from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥kéno, *mr̥kóno, from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥Hko, from *mer- (“to shimmer, glisten”).

See also West Frisian moarn, Low German Morgen, Dutch morgen, German Morgen, Danish morgen, Norwegian morgon; also Lithuanian mérkti (“to blink, twinkle”), Sanskrit मरीचि (márīci, “ray of light”), Greek μέρα (méra, “morning”). Doublet of morrow and morgen. See also morning.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mɔːn/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /moɹn/, [mo̞ɹn]
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)n
• Homophones: mourn, mourne, morne (horse–hoarse merger)
• (without the horse–hoarse merger)
  • (rhotic) IPA^(key): /mɔːɹn/
  • (non-rhotic) IPA^(key): /mɔːn/

morn (countable and uncountable, plural morns)

1. (now poetic) Morning.
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], lines 165-168:

     But look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, / Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill. / Break we our watch up, and by my advice, / Let us impart what we have seen tonight

• morning, morrow; see also Thesaurus:morning

• after-morn
• good morn

• NORM, Norm, Norm., norm, norm.

See moorn (“tomorrow”)

morn

1. tomorrow

morn

Compare West Frisian moarn.

1. Alternative form of morwe

• IPA^(key): /mɔɳ/
• Rhymes: -ɔɳ

morn

1. colloquial variant of god morgen

• “morn” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “morn” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

• IPA^(key): /mɔɳ/

morn

1. colloquial variant of god morgon

• morna

• “morn” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Middle English morn, variant of morwe, from Old English morgen.

morn (plural morns)

1. morning
2. (definite singular) tomorrow

   A'll gae for ma messages the morn. I'll go shopping tomorrow.

morn

1. Colloquial variant of god morgon

• norm