swamp, marsh · land suitable for growing primeur or vegetable
eş: marécage, marchais
köken: Inherited from Middle French marais, from Old French mareis (“marsh”) (compare Medieval Latin maresc, maresch), from Frankish *marisk (“marsh, swamp”). Related to marécage.
aile: chat des marais, cirse des marais, hibou des marais, maraîchage, maraîcher, maraîchin, maraîchinage, Marais breton, marais salant, populage des marais
köken: From Proto-Turkic *batgak (“swamp, marsh”). Cognate with Chuvash путлӑх (putlăh), путлӑх (putlăh), etc. Alternatively, a derivation of Proto-Turkic *bat- (“to sink; to fit into, get into”), whence also Azerbaijani batmaq.
köken: From Proto-Turkic *sāŕ (“swamp, marsh”). Cognate with Bashkir һаҙ (haź), Southern Altai сас (sas), Tatar саз (saz), Uzbek soz, Khakas сас (sas, “swamp, marsh”); Chuvash шур (šur, “swamp, marsh”), etc.
köken: From Proto-Indo-European *bʰelH- (“white”). Cognate with Proto-Slavic *bolto (“swamp”), Romanian baltă (“mud, swamp”) and Albanian baltë (“mud”). Often considered an Illyrian substratum word.
köken: From Proto-Finnic *nëva. Related to Estonian nõva, Livvi ńeva and Veps nova. Related to the name of the river Neva (see it for more); either from it, or vice versa.