good morning
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English phrasebook
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Alternative forms
- good morrow
- (noun): goodmorning, good-morning
Etymology
From Middle English gud mornynge (also as goode morne, gode morne), from Old English *gōdne morgen (“good morning”), an ellipsis for an expression such as "I wish you a good morning", equivalent to good + morning. Compare West Frisian goeie moarn, Dutch goedemorgen, German guten Morgen, Danish god morgen, Swedish god morgon, Icelandic góðan morgunn.
Pronunciation
Interjection
- Used as a greeting when meeting someone for the first time in the morning.
- The teacher welcomed the kids to school with "Good morning, boys and girls."
- 2019 December 15, Hugh Graham, Alice Hutton, “Milk or tea first? Charles's butlers have the answer”, in The Sunday Times, number 10,188, page 5:
- Other rules learnt by butlers include lighting candles 15 minutes before guests enter a room, and not saying "good morning" to guests until you are 5ft away.
- (less common, more formal) A parting in the morning.
- Thank you for coming everyone and I hope to see you again next year. Good morning.
- (by extension, humorous) Used to greet someone who has just awakened (irrespective of the time of day).
- Up at the crack of dusk! Good morning!
- (by extension, informal) Said to someone who has come to a belated realization.
- You're just realizing that now? Good morning!
Usage notes
- May be shortened in casual speech to morning.
- As a greeting, may be used by anyone in almost any setting from the most casual to the most formal, close friend or stranger, regardless of age, social group, etc.
Coordinate terms
Translations
when seeing someone for the first time in the morning
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Noun
good morning (plural good mornings)
- A greeting consisting of the interjection.
- (weightlifting) An exercise performed by bending forward at the waist and then returning to a standing posture, while bearing a barbell or resistance band across the shoulders.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:good morning.
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Etymology
Borrowed from English good morning.
Pronunciation
Interjection
- good morning (used as a greeting when meeting someone for the first time in the morning.)
Usage notes
- There is no equivalent to the greeting "good morning" in Kankanaey. Greetings are done using non-verbal means or is implied through different sentences. Other translations are literal but are not commonly used, while others are used in the sense to start a speech.
Synonyms
| Northern / Applai | ||
|---|---|---|
| Mt. Province | parts of Sabangan | good morning |
| Sagada | good morning gawis nan morning | |
| Others | ||
| Benguet | Atok | good morning siged ay agsapa |
| Tuba | mayat ay agew | |
| Southern / Central | ||
| Benguet | Mankayan | mayat ay agsapa |
| Kapangan | good morning mapteng ay agew | |
| Kibungan | mayat ay agsapa siged ay agsapa | |
| Buguias | mayat ay agew | |
| Mt. Province | Sabangan | good morning |
Dialectal synonyms of good morning
- gawis ay agew
- gawis ay agsapa
- gawis ay wakgat
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