different between marish vs warish

English

Alternative forms

• marrish [16th-19th c.]
• marys [14th-15th c.]

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman mareis, mereis, or from Middle French mares, marest, both from Late Latin mariscus, from Proto-West Germanic *marisk (“marsh”). Doublet of marsh and morass.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ma???/

Noun

marish (plural marishes)

1. (now poetic or archaic) A marsh.
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book XII:

     The Cherubim descended; on the ground / Gliding meteorous, as evening-mist / Risen from a river o'er the marish glides, / And gathers ground fast at the labourer's heel / Homeward returning.

Adjective

marish (comparative more marish, superlative most marish)

1. (now poetic or archaic) Marshy; growing in bogs or marshes.

Synonyms

• hoggy, quaggy, swampy; see also Thesaurus:marshy

Anagrams

• Mishar, Mishra, harims, ihrams

Manx

Alternative forms

• mârish

Preposition

marish

1. with

Inflection

Derived terms

• fow marish (“have sex with”)

Pronoun

marish

1. third-person singular of marish

   with him/it

Derived terms

• marishyn (emphatic)

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English warischen, warishen, warisshen, from Anglo-Norman waris-, the present participle stem of warir, from Old French guarir (modern guérir), from Frankish *warjan, from Proto-Germanic *warjan?. Compare guarish.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?w????/

Verb

warish (third-person singular simple present warishes, present participle warishing, simple past and past participle warished)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To cure or heal (an illness or a person).
   • Late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale’, Canterbury Tales

     Thanne were myn herte / Al warisshed of his bittre peynes smerte.

   • Varro testifieth, that even at this day there be some there who warish and cure the stinging of serpents with their spittle.

2. (obsolete, intransitive) To get better; to recover from an illness.

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?w?????/

Adjective

warish (comparative more warish, superlative most warish)

1. Alternative form of warrish (“warlike”).
   • 1974, Every librarian a manager: proceedings of a conference (Special Libraries Association, Indiana Chapter, Purdue University. Libraries and Audio-Visual Center):

     Because we found that operations management, strategic management of war forces, proved to have a lot of value, strategic management was shifted over into the arena of the industrial organization. So you'll notice the definition of strategy comes very much from a warish, militaristic context, i.e., the positioning of armed forces...

   • 2004, Instructor's Manual for Velasquez's Philosophy, A Text with Readings (?ISBN):

     [...] the state of nature is a warish, brutal state.

Anagrams

• hwairs, rawish