morgen
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A land measure in South Africa that equals about two acres or 0.8 hectares
- noun
- Archaic
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morgen
Surface Forms
Etymology
Morgen comes from Dutch and German morgen, like the English word morning meaning 'morning', and it originally meant the area a farmer could plow in one morning with an ox. That's why today morgen is used as a land measure in places like South Africa of about two acres.
