marsh的词源

英文词源

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.)).

来自Proto-Germanic*marisko,来自PIE*mori,海，湖泊，-iskos,形容词后缀。即湖泊状的，引申词义沼泽，湿地。

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词根词缀： -mar-海 + sh