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noun low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water
originFrom Middle English fenlond, from Old English fenland, equivalent to fen + land. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Foanlound (“moorland”), West Frisian feanlân (“peat bog”), Dutch veenland (“peat bog”), Middle Low German vēnlant, vennelant (“swampy, boggy pastureland”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0