A historical unit of land area used in Germanic and Dutch regions, roughly the amount of land one person could plow in a morning.
From Old High German 'morgan,' literally meaning 'morning.' The word reflects agricultural life—early peoples measured land by how much work could be done in one morning's plowing.
The word 'morgen' disappeared from most English usage, but it survived in South African 'morgen' (plural 'morgans'), creating a weird linguistic fossil where the word is still officially used for land measurement in some regions.
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