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The morra
The date
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The morra will be atweesh Tysday, 28 Mey 2024 an Wadensday, 29 Mey 2024, in the local time zone.
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The morra
or
the morn
is the
day
that comes efter "the day" (this day).
[1]
In daily speech, the morra daesna mean anerly the ane day, but micht mean the
future
as a hail. For ordinar the morra is uisually seen as juist ayont the
present
an coonter tae yesterday. It is important in time perception acause it is the first direction the arrow of time taks humans on Yird.
The uise of terms sic as the morra, nou and futur are pairt o an a-series view thit is pairt o the presentism philosophy o time.
[2]
For a young bairn, "the morra" is "an no defined, infinite time for the idea that time is juist an infinite an arbitrary definition o an the nou no identified for whit we like tae caw time, yet the child slawly lairns the meanin for the morra." The concept for "tomorrow" is rairly bi 3-year-auld bairns, but 4-year-auld bairns unnerstaun the idea.
[3]
The wird Morra comes fae the Middle Inglis
Morwe
[4]
, thit comes fae the Auld Inglis
Morgen
(dative
morgne
) "mornin, forenuin, sunrise," thit than derives fae the Proto-Germanic
murgana
. This wird gies inspiration fur equivalents in ither Germanic leids an aw.
[5]
The uise of constructions wi an airticle sic as
the morra
or
the noo
mirror Gaelic, e.g.
a-maireach
or
an drasta
/
a-nis
.
- ↑
Contini-Morava, Ellen; Goldberg, Barbara Sussman; Kirsner, Robert S. (1 Januar 1995).
Meaning as Explanation: Advances in Linguistic Sign Theory
(in Inglis).
Walter de Gruyter
.
ISBN
9783110141221
.
- ↑
Birx, H. James (2009).
Encyclopedia of Time: Science, Philosophy, Theology, & Culture
.
SAGE Publications
. p. 438.
ISBN
9781506319933
. Retrieved
9 October
2016
.
- ↑
Folberg, Jay; Milne, Ann; Salem, Peter (2004).
Divorce and Family Mediation: Models, Techniques, and Applications
.
Guilford Press
. p. 166.
ISBN
9781593850029
.
- ↑
Concise Scots dictionary
(2nd edition ed.). Edinburgh: Edinburgh university press. 2017. p. 425.
ISBN
978-1-4744-3231-3
.
CS1 maint: extra text (
link
)
- ↑
"tomorrow | Etymology of tomorrow by etymonline"
.
www.etymonline.com
(in Inglis)
. Retrieved
23 Januar
2024
.