Noun: sedge
| Singular | sedge |
| Plural | sedges |
Sample Sentences
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But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat's-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity, earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphony—a harmony of sound and colour silvered to a monochrome by the moon. [1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like sedge
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Germanic *sagjaz
3. Proto-West Germanic *sagi
4. Old English seċġ
5. Middle English segge
6. English sedge
7. From Middle English segge, from Old English seċġ, from Proto-West Germanic *sagi, from Proto-Germanic *sagjaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sak- (“marsh plant”).
8. Cognate with Dutch zegge and German Segge, dialectal German Saher (“reeds”). See: Middle English Nouns '
segge', Dutch Nouns '
zegge', German Nouns '
Segge'.
Verbs referencing "sedge"
German Nouns
Segge.