Messing

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English

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Etymology 1

From the Old English personal name Mæcca + -ing (belonging to).[1]

Proper noun

Messing

  1. A village in Messing-cum-Inworth parish, Colchester district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL8918).
Derived terms

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from German Messing (brass), a metonymic occupational surname for a brazier.

Proper noun

Messing (plural Messings)

  1. A surname from German.
Statistics
  • 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

References

  1. ^ "Key to English Place Names". Key to English Place Names- Worth Kent. University of Nottingham.

German

Etymology

From Middle High German messinc, from Proto-West Germanic *massing.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɛsɪŋ/
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Noun

Messing n (strong, genitive Messings, no plural)

  1. brass

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Hungarian: messing
  • Macedonian: месинг (mesing)
  • Serbo-Croatian: mèsing
  • Slovene: mēsing
  • Slovincian: mësing

References

  • Guus Kroonen (2013) “masjinga”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 356

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