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.)).
例文
1. They sometimes sank knee-deep into the marsh .
彼らは時々膝のない湿地に陥っている。
2.A posse of Marsh 's friends persuaded them that this was a bad idea.
マーシュの友人たちは、彼らに下らない考えだと忠告した。
3.At her London Hotel today Miss Marsh told reporters she might retire.
今日ロンドンのホテルで、マーシュさんは引退する可能性があると記者に伝えた。
新しい概念の英語第1巻から
4.The air,too,smelt more freshly than down beside the marsh .
ここの空気も下の沼地のそばよりずっときれいになった。dd>?金銀島
5. Marsh calls for fairly careful review of the agency decision.