From theOld English personal nameMæcca +-ing ( “ belonging to ” ) .[ 1]
Messing
A village inMessing-cum-Inworth parish,Colchester district,Essex ,England ( OS grid ref TL8918) . Borrowed fromGerman Messing ( “ brass ” ) , a metonymic occupational surname for a brazier.
Messing (plural Messings )
Asurname from German .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. ^ "Key to English Place Names". Key to English Place Names- Worth Kent. University of Nottingham. FromMiddle High German messinc , fromProto-West Germanic *massing .
Messing n (strong ,genitive Messings ,no plural )
brass Declension ofMessing [sg-only, neuter, strong ]
Kroonen, Guus (2013 ) “masjinga”, inEtymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series;11 )[1] , Leiden, Boston:Brill ,→ISBN ,page356