different between marsh vs earsh

English

Etymology

From Middle English mersh, mershe, from Old English mers?, meris?, from Proto-West Germanic *marisk, derived from *mari, equivalent to mere (“sea, body of water”) +? -ish. Doublet of marish and morass. Cognate with West Frisian mersk, Dutch meers (“grassland, meadow”), German Marsch. More at mere.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /m???/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /m??(?)?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)?

Noun

marsh (plural marshes)

1. An area of low, wet land, often with tall grass.

   Coordinate terms: bog, moor, swamp

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See also

• marshmallow
• slack

Anagrams

• Harms, Sharm, harms, mahrs, shram

English

Alternative forms

• arrish, arish, ersh, aish, airish, eddish, errish, hayrish, herrish

Etymology

From Middle English *ersch, from Old English ersc (“a park, preserve; stubble-field”).

Earsh (noun)(Old English ersc) was used in the south & west of England to describe a stubble field in which plant material – wheat, barley or rye- had been cut, leaving a short stubble or short stalks.

Noah Webster in Webster's Dictionary (1828) describes Earsh as a plowed (sic) field linking it to arrish but also to eadish which is described as latter pasture of grass that comes after mowing or reaping, called also eargrass, earsh, etch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æ??(?)/,

Noun

earsh (countable and uncountable, plural earshes)

1. (archaic) stubble field.
   • 1628 Fires oft are good on barren earshes made, With crackling flames to burn the stubble blade’ Translation of Georgics by Virgil, Thomas May,

Anagrams

• Asher, Rahes, Share, Shear, asher, hares, harse, hears, heras, rheas, sehar, sehra, share, shear