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)
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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., , § 146, page 147.