Messing

== English == === Etymology 1 === From the Old English personal name *Mæcca + -ing (“belonging to”). ==== Proper noun ==== Messing A village in Messing-cum-Inworth parish, Colchester district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TL8918). ===== Derived terms ===== Messing-cum-Inworth === Etymology 2 === Borrowed from German Messing (“brass”), a metonymic occupational surname for a brazier. ==== Proper noun ==== Messing (plural Messings) 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 === Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Messing”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 580. === References === == German == === Etymology === From Middle High German messinc, from Proto-West Germanic *massing. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈmɛsɪŋ/ === Noun === Messing n (strong, genitive Messings, no plural) brass ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== messingen Messingwerk ==== Descendants ==== → Hungarian: messing → Macedonian: месинг (mesing) → Pannonian Rusyn: месинґ (mesing) → Serbo-Croatian: mèsing → Slovene: mēsing → Slovincian: mësing === References === Kroonen, Guus (2013), “masjinga”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 356 === Further reading === “Messing”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[2] (in German) “Messing” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “Messing” in Duden online Messing on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de “Messing” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.