Messing

See also: messing

English

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

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 [sg-only, neuter, strong]
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

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

Further reading
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