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

Declension of Messing
singular
indef. def. noun
nominative ein das Messing
genitive eines des Messings
dative einem dem Messing
accusative ein das Messing

Derived terms

Descendants

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

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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