LL-L: "Etymology" LOWLANDS-L, 30.OCT.1999 (02) [E]

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From: Colin Wilson [lcwilson at iee.org]
Subject: LL-L: "Etymology" LOWLANDS-L, 28.OCT.1999 (03) [E]

t 17:05 28/10/99 -0700, Sandy wrote:

>I can't seem to reconcile myself with the idea of "morn" meaning "morning"
>in Scots. Rather, "morn" corresponds to the English "morrow" and "the morn"
>means "tomorrow", but for "morning" we say "mornin". While I imagine that
>"morn" and "morning" are derived from the same root, I think that "the
>morn's mornin" is the usual Scots for "tomorrow morning", and that the
>phrase "the morn's morn" is a back-formation inspired by the pleasant
>repetition.

I'm with Sandy here, most of the way. The Concise Scots Dictionary
gives "tomorrow morning" as the meaning of "the morn's morn", but
personally I'm used to that being expressed (always) as "the morn's
mornin".

If someone had actually said "the morn's morn" I would have taken it
to mean "the day after tomorrow".

Colin Wilson.

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