different between marsh vs marish

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

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• marshmallow
• slack

Anagrams

• Harms, Sharm, harms, mahrs, shram

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)