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English
Etymology 1
From the Old English personal name Mæcca + -ing (“belonging to”).[1]
Proper noun
Messing
- A village in Messing-cum-Inworth parish, Colchester district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL8918).
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Borrowed from German Messing (“brass”), a metonymic occupational surname for a brazier.
Proper noun
Messing (plural Messings)
- 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
- ^ "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
Noun
Messing n (strong, genitive Messings, no plural)
- brass
Declension
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013) “masjinga”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 356
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