English
marish
Marish comes from Middle English mareys ‘a region of marshland or swamp’.
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500mareys‘a region of marshland or swamp’
- Englishearliest quotation 1485marish
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500mareys‘a region of marshland or swamp’
- Englishearliest quotation 1485marish
Earliest quotation: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, primum: “Thenne sir Tristram departed / and in euery place…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *mer- ‘sea, lake, wetland’
remember, murder, mortality, mortal, nightmare, mortar, maritime, muller, morbid, submarine, mort, morn, mara, ambrosia, mariner, moribund, cormorant, marinara, 58 more
through Proto-Indo-European *móri ‘sea’
march, marine, moor, mare, marinate, maar, 15 more
through Proto-West Germanic *mari ‘sea, lake’
through Proto-West Germanic *marisk ‘marsh’
through Late Latin mariscus
Today it means
noun A marsh.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle English mareys / marish