The story
- Proto-Germanic · inherited from*murgnagebō“morning gift”
- Old English · inherited frommorgenġifu
- Middle English · inherited frommorgengive
- English todaymorning gift
Normalisation (after morning and gift) of Middle English morgengive, morhȝive, from Old English morgenġifu, morgenġiefu (“morning gift”), from Proto-Germanic *murgnagebō (“morning gift”), equivalent to morning + gift. Cognate with Dutch morgengave (“morning gift”), German Morgengabe (“morning gift”).
Words from the same roots
Proto-Germanic*murgnagebō all →
morganatic
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.