morass

Pronunciation: /məˈɹæs/

The English word “morass” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

A tract of soft, wet ground; a marsh; a fen.
Anything that entraps or makes progress difficult.

Etymology

From Dutch moeras (“marsh, swamp”), an alteration (with influence from Dutch moer (“moor”)) of a direct descendant of Middle Dutch marasch (“marsh”). The Middle Dutch word is a borrowing from Old French mareis, from Proto-West Germanic *marisk. Doublet of marish and marsh, and linked in part to moor. Compare quagmire.

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