Tomorrow
/təˈmɒr.oʊ/noun
The day after today.
Did you know?The word is a fossil of an older phrase, and its first half originally meant “to” in the sense of “toward,” not the modern preposition—so tomorrow literally points you forward in time.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*murganą
“morning, early part of the day”
Old English
OE
tō morgenne
“to (the) morning, by the next morning”
Middle English
ME
to morwe / to morrowe
“by the next day; on the following morning”
Early Modern English
English
tomorrow
“the next day after the present one”
Modern English
English
tomorrow
“the day after today”