Morgengabe
German (Berlin)
noun
Definitions
- morning gift the gift given by the bridegroom to the bride on the morning after the wedding night
Etymology
Inherited from Middle High German morgengābe inherited from Old High German morgangeba inherited from Proto-Germanic *murgnagebō (morning gift) compound from German Morgen (morning) + German Gabe (gift).
Origin
German (Berlin)
Gabe
Gloss
gift
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- morning gift English
- Abgabe German
- Angabe German
- Auffassungsgabe German
- Beigabe German
- Eingabe German
- Gabe German
- Leihgabe German
- Maßgabe German
- Morgen German
- Morgendämmerung German
- Morgenessen German
- Morgenkaffee German
- Morgenlatte German
- Morgenluft German
- Morgenrot German
- Morgenröte German
- Morgensonne German
- Morgenstern German
- Rückgabe German
- Samstagmorgen German
- Vergabe German
- Vorgabe German
- guten Morgen German
- morgendlich German
- morgenwärts German
- morgen Dutch, Flemish
- *murgnagebō Proto-Germanic
- morgengiefu Old English
- morgenġifu Old English
- morgengive Middle English
- morgangeba Old High German
- gābe Middle High German
- morgen Middle High German
- morgengābe Middle High German
- *morgangāva Old Dutch