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The morra will be atweesh Wadensday, 28 August 2024 an Fuirsday, 29 August 2024, in the local time zone. | |
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-màireach or an dràsta / a-nis.