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However, the word may actually also derive from the Dutch, Frisian, and Low German word mo(o)i, meaning "beautiful" or "good". [3] [5] Similar forms in Low Saxon are mooien Dag, mooien Abend, mooien Mor(g)en. Possibly, as is common in etymology, one origin is correct (from Morgen or mooi) but spread thanks to its oral assimilation with the ...
A First World War Canadian electoral campaign poster. Hun (or The Hun) is a term that originally refers to the nomadic Huns of the Migration Period.Beginning in World War I it became an often used pejorative seen on war posters by Western Allied powers and the basis for a criminal characterization of the Germans as barbarians with no respect for civilization and humanitarian values having ...
A Morgen (Mg) is a historical, but still occasionally used, German unit of area used in agriculture. [1] Officially, it is no longer in use, but rather the hectare. [1] While today it is approximately equivalent to the Prussian morgen, measuring 25 ares or 2,500 square meters, its area once ranged from 1,906 to 11,780 square meters, but usually between ¼ and ½ hectare. [1]
Morgen is a former unit of measurement, from the German and Dutch word meaning morning, which denoted the amount of land that could be plowed in a morning's time. Morgen may also refer to: People
This list of German abbreviations includes abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms found in the German language. Because German words can be famously long, use of abbreviation is particularly common. Even the language's shortest words are often abbreviated, such as the conjunction und (and) written just as "u." This article covers standard ...
If the person has sneezed three times: Morgen mooi weer. Less commonly used: Proost "Health" If the person has sneezed three times: "The weather will be nice tomorrow" From the Latin prÅsit meaning "May it be good"; "To your health" [notes 1] Dank u (wel) (formal) or Dank je (wel) (informal) "Thank you" English: God bless you, Bless you, or ...
Kugelblitz (the German term for ball lightning), in theoretical physics: a concentration of light so intense that it forms an event horizon and becomes self-trapped; Rocks and minerals like Quartz (German spelling: Quarz), Gneiss and Feldspar (originally Gneis and Feldspat respectively), Meerschaum; Reststrahlen (lit. "residual rays")
List of German abbreviations; Abteilung; Alle Menschen werden Brüder; Angstloch; Ansatz; Arbeit macht frei; Arsch huh, Zäng ussenander; Aufbau; Auslese; Austria - the Nazis' first victim; Ave Maria! Jungfrau mild, erhöre einer Jungrau Flehen