Etymograph

English

tomorrow

Tomorrow comes from Middle English tomorwe, from the Old English phrase tō morgne ‘tomorrow’ (tō ‘at’ + morgen ‘morning’).

  1. Old Englishc. 450–1150tō morgne1‘tomorrow’
  2. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500tomorwe1‘on the day after today’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1664tomorrow1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English tomorrow
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1664, debate in Great Britain's House of Commo: “Resolved, &c. That the House be Called over again…”.

Lineage

  1. Old Englishc. 450–1150tō morgneWiktionary, English tomorrow‘tomorrow’
  2. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500tomorweWiktionary, English tomorrow‘on the day after today’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1664tomorrowWiktionary, English tomorrow. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1664, debate in Great Britain's House of Commo: “Resolved, &c. That the House be Called over again…”

Word family

English words that share an ancestor with tomorrow, grouped by the ancestor they share, most familiar first.

through Proto-Germanic *murganaz ‘morning’

  • morn ← morgen ← *morgan
  • morgen ← morgan ← *morgin

through Old English tō ‘at, on’

1 more relative in the full family tree

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Today it means

adv On the day after the present day.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “tomorrow”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Old English tō morgne / tomorrow