Etymograph

English

marshily

From marshy + -ly.

A compound of marshy + -ly

Proto-Indo-European *móri ‘sea’

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Proto-West Germanic *marisk ‘lake-like, marshy’

Old English merisċ

Middle English mersch ‘a region of marshland or damp meadowland’

Middle English merschy

English marshy

Today it means

adv In a marshy way.

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

Etymograph / marshily