English

grasswrack

grass + wrack

A compound of grass + wrack

Proto-Indo-European *gʰreh₁- ‘to grow’

Proto-Germanic *grasą

Proto-West Germanic *gras

Old English græs

Middle English gras ‘a grass’

English grass

Proto-Germanic *wrakō

Old English wracu ‘revenge’

Middle English wrake ‘vengeance, retribution, revenge’

English wrack

Today it means

noun The eelgrass growing abundantly on the sea-coast.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / grasswrack