marsh
pronunciation
How to pronounce marsh in British English:
UK [mɑːʃ]
How to pronounce marsh in American English:
US [mɑːrʃ]
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- Noun:
- low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water
Word Origin
- marsh
- marsh: [OE] The immediate origin of marsh is Germanic: it comes from a prehistoric West Germanic. *marisk-, which also produced German marsch and Dutch marsk. This was probably a derivative of Germanic *mari ‘sea’ (source of English mere ‘lake’), whose relatives included Latin mare ‘sea’ (source of English marine).=> marine, mere
- marsh (n.)
- Old English mersc, merisc "marsh, swamp," from Proto-Germanic *marisko (cognates: Old Frisian and Old Saxon marsk "marsh," Middle Dutch mersch, Dutch mars, German Marsch, Danish marsk), probably from Proto-Germanic *mari- "sea" (see mere (n.)).
Example
- 1. I spotted this lone great egret in a large area of marsh grass .
- 2. Recently , a red fox has been hunting in the marsh behind my condo on the connecticut shoreline .
- 3. Burning hot on a winter 's day , a brush fire consumes a patch of dried marsh , drawing spectators at a golf course in denver , colorado .
- 4. When marsh tea is abloom , air is permeated with stupefying odor of this medical and poisonous plant .
- 5. When the rains come in april and the bedunge turns to marsh and then glutinous mud , sending up clouds of malarial mosquitoes , this region is all but cut off from the outside world .