marish

• marrish [16th-19th c.]
• marys [14th-15th c.]

From Anglo-Norman mareis, mereis, Middle French mares, marest, from Late Latin mariscus, from Proto-Germanic *mariskaz (“marsh”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɹɪʃ/

marish (plural marishes)

1. (now poetic or archaic) A marsh.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter primum, in Le Morte Darthur, book X:

     Thenne sir Tristram departed / and in euery place he asked & demaunded after sir Launcelot / but in no place he coude not here of hym whether he were dede or on lyue / […] / Soo syr Tristram rode by a forest and then̄e was he ware of a fayre toure by a mareyse on that one syde / and on that other syde a fayr medowe

   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book XII:

     The Cherubim descended; on the ground / Gliding meteorous, as evening-mist / Risen from a river o'er the marish glides, / And gathers ground fast at the labourer's heel / Homeward returning.

marish (comparative more marish, superlative most marish)

1. (now poetic or archaic) Marshy; growing in bogs or marshes.
   • Tennyson

     And the silvery marish flowers that throng / The desolate creeks and pools among.

   • 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:

     after the manner of Cards or Maps, the utmost limits of knowne Countries, are set downe to be full of thicke marrish grounds, shady forrests, desart and uncouth places.

• Mishar, Mishra, harims, ihrams

• mârish

marish

1. with

   Va mee caggey marish my charrey. ― I was fighting with (i.e. alongside) my friend.

• fow marish (“have sex with”)

marish

1. third-person singular of marish

   with him/it

• marishyn (emphatic)