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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.

• (UK) IPA(key): /mɔːn/
• (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

• midmorn

• mornless

• mornlike

• mornward

• tomorn

• yestermorn

• NORM, Norm, Norm., norm, norm.

See moorn (“tomorrow”)

morn

1. tomorrow

morn

1. alternative form of morwe

morn

1. (Late Middle English) alternative form of mornen

• 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

the morn

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

• the morn's morn

morn

1. Colloquial variant of god morgon

• norm