Noun: marsh
| Singular | marsh |
| Plural | marshes |
Sample Sentences
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Many animals live in the marsh.
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Čepkeliai Marsh consists mainly of bog.
Nouns inflected like marsh
penniless-bench,
wintergrass,
kitchen pass,
grey fox,
grey box,
trailer hitch,
paleness,
loaded march,
Tush Push,
horribleness,
slaughteress,
chapparvovirus,
greenwax,
royal flush,
crab cactus,
geostress,
syngas,
wintercress,
ichthys,
ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *mer-?
3. Proto-Indo-European *móri
4. Proto-Germanic *mari
5. Proto-West Germanic *mari
6. Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
7. Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
8. Proto-West Germanic *-isk
9. Proto-West Germanic *marisk
10. Old English mersċ
11. Middle English merssh
12. English marsh
13. From Middle English merssh, from Old English mersċ, merisċ, from Proto-West Germanic *marisk, derived from *mari, equivalent to mere (“sea, body of water”) + -ish. Doublet of marish, morass, and merse. Cognate with West Frisian mersk, Dutch meers (“grassland, meadow”) and Dutch moeras, German Marsch. More at mere. See: Middle English Nouns '
merssh', Dutch Nouns '
meers', Dutch Nouns '
moeras', German Nouns '
Marsch'.
Verbs referencing "marsh"
Danish Nouns
marsk.