marais

From Middle French marais, from Old French mareis (“marsh”) (compare Medieval Latin maresc, maresch), from Frankish *marisk (“marsh, swamp”), from Proto-Germanic *mariskaz (“marsh, swamp”), from Proto-Germanic *mari (“lake, sea, moor”), from Proto-Indo-European *móri (“sea”). Akin to Middle Dutch mersch, maersch (“marsh”), Middle Low German mersch, marsch (“marshland”), Old English merisc (“marsh”). See also marécage, mare, English marsh.

• IPA^(key): /ma.ʁɛ/

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marais m (plural marais)

1. swamp, marsh
2. (archaic) land suitable for growing primeur or vegetable

• marécage

• “marais” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• armais, marias, ramais

marais

1. second-person plural (vós) present indicative of marar

marais

1. plural of rais