morwen

Middle English

Alternative forms

• morewen, morn, morowen
• moreghen, morgen, morghen, morȝen (especially Early Middle English); mareȝen, marȝen, marhen (Early Middle English, West Midland)
• morne (Late Middle English); morwyn (especially East Anglia); marne (West Midland)
• morewane, moron, morun, morwhen, morwoun, moryhen, mowroun (Northern, North Midland); moryn (Catholicon Anglicum)

Etymology

Inherited from Old English morgen, from Proto-West Germanic *morgan, from Proto-Germanic *murganaz; contracted forms are probably from Old English inflected stem morgn- with loss of medial /ɡ/. Doublet of morwe; for forms with ⟨a⟩, see there.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔrwən/, /ˈmɔrɔu̯ən/, /ˈmɔrun/
• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔriu̯ən/ (especially Kent, Southern, South Midland)
• IPA^(key): /moːrn/, /mɔrn/ (with contraction, especially Northern or Late Middle English)

Noun

morwen (uncountable)

1. Morning, sunrise; the beginning of the day.
2. The next day or morning; tomorrow.

Derived terms

• morwensterre
• morwenynge

Related terms

• tomorwen

Descendants

• English: morn
• Middle Scots: morn, morne
  • Scots: morn

References

• “mōrn, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• Jordan, Richard (1974),  Eugene Crook, transl., Handbook of the Middle English Grammar: Phonology (Janua Linguarum. Series Practica; 218)‎^[1], The Hague: Mouton & Co. N.V., →DOI, § 146, page 147.