Etymograph

English

plash

Plash comes from Old English plæsċ ‘pool’.

  1. Old Englishc. 450–1150plæsċ‘pool’
  2. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500plasch
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1523plash

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Old Englishc. 450–1150plæsċ‘pool’
  2. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500plasch
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1523plash

Earliest quotation: 1523, Johan Froyssart [i.e.: “And ſo than they of Bruges began to ſhote…”

Every English word from Old English plæsċ

Another origin of plash

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*pleḱ-‘to fold, plait, weave’root as named · steps between not traced
  2. Anglo-Normanc. 1066–1400plaissier
  3. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500*plashenreconstructed
  4. Englishtodayplash

The verb is derived from Late Middle English *plashen (attested by the present participle form plashynge), from Anglo-Norman plaissier, plaisser, Old French plaissier, plaisser, and Old French plaissier (‘to bend; to interlace’) (modern French plaisser (regional)), from Late Latin *plaxus, a variant of Latin plexus, the perfect passive participle of plectō (‘to braid, plait, weave; to bend; to turn; to twist’), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleḱ- (‘to fold; to plait, weave’). The noun is derived from the verb.

Today it means

noun A small pool of standing water; a marshy pond; also, a puddle; (uncountable) marshy land; mire.

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

Etymograph / Old English plæsċ / plash

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