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6 letters · 8 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
originFrom Dutch moeras (“marsh, swamp”), an alteration (with influence from Dutch moer (“moor”)) of a direct descendant of Middle Dutch marasch (“marsh”). The Middle Dutch word is a borrowing from Old French mareis, from Proto-West Germanic *marisk. Doublet of marish and marsh, and linked in part to moor. Compare quagmire.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0