English
marshlike
From marsh + -like.
Formed from marsh + -like
Proto-Indo-European *móri ‘standing water’
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Proto-West Germanic *mari ‘sea, lake’
Proto-West Germanic *marisk ‘lake-like, marshy’
Old English mersċ ‘a marsh, bog, or swamp’
Middle English mersch ‘a region of marshland or damp meadowland’
English marsh
Today it means
adj Resembling or characteristic of a marsh.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / marshlike