morn

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · inherited from*mr̥Hko
2. Proto-Indo-European · inherited from*mr̥kéno
3. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*murganaz
4. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*morgan
5. Old English · inherited frommorgen
6. Middle English · inherited frommorn
7. English todaymorn

From Middle English morn, morwen, 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 मरी॑चि (márīci, “ray of light”), Greek μέρα (méra, “morning”). Doublet of morrow and morgen. See also morning.

Words from the same roots