Messing
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English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From the Old English personal name Mæcca + -ing (“belonging to”).[1]
Proper noun
[edit]Messing
- A village in Messing-cum-Inworth parish, Colchester district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL8918).
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Borrowed from German Messing (“brass”), a metonymic occupational surname for a brazier.
Proper noun
[edit]Messing (plural Messings)
- A surname from German.
Statistics
[edit]- According to the 2010 United States Census, Messing is the 12289th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2530 individuals. Messing is most common among White (92.69%) individuals.
Further reading
[edit]- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Messing”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 580.
References
[edit]- ^ "Key to English Place Names". Key to English Place Names- Worth Kent. University of Nottingham.
German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German messinc, from Proto-West Germanic *massing.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Messing n (strong, genitive Messings, no plural)
Declension
[edit]Declension of Messing [sg-only, neuter, strong]
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Hungarian: messing
- → Macedonian: месинг (mesing)
- → Serbo-Croatian: mèsing
- → Slovene: mēsing
- → Slovincian: mësing
References
[edit]- Guus Kroonen (2013) “masjinga”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 356
Further reading
[edit]- “Messing” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Messing” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Messing” in Duden online
- Messing on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
- “Messing” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
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