means The early part of the day, from dawn until noon, when the sun comes up and the world starts moving again.

from From Old English 'morgen,' the dawn, which by the Middle English period had grown a '-ing' ending — built on the same pattern as 'evening' from 'even.' It's deeply rooted in Germanic soil: a cousin of German 'Morgen' and Dutch 'morgen,' all reaching back toward a sense of the day's first glimmer. Worth noting it's an accidental near-twin of 'mourning,' which comes from an entirely unrelated word for grief — the resemblance is pure coincidence, however fitting it feels before coffee.