Middle English Dictionary Entry
mershī adj.
Entry Info
Forms | mershī adj. |
Etymology | From mersh . |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Marshy, swampy.
Associated quotations
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Gen.41.2 : Seuen faire oxen..wern yfedd in mershi placez [WB(2): places of mereis; L locis palustribus].
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.Sum.(Manly-Rickert)D.1710 : Ther is in Yorkshire..A mersshy contree called Holdernesse.
- a1450 St.Etheldr.(Fst B.3)609 : Bot þat contrey was lowe & mersshy, watery londe.