MARSH

(Teutonic) Maresche, Morass, a fen, a tract of low, wet land.

MORSE

Probably a contraction of Morris. Mors, the name of a large island in Denmark, a marsh.

MERTON

Local. From Merton, a town in Sussex, England, so called from mere, a lake or marsh, and ton.

MOERS

Derived from the town of Moers, in the Netherlands. Moer or Moeras, in Dutch, signifies a fen, marsh, or moor.

KIERSTED

(Danish.) Local. The place near a marsh, from Kier, a marsh, and sted, a dwelling, a town.

MARSHMAN

One dwelling near a marsh.

VANDERPOEL

From the marsh or lake.

SOMERVILLE

The village near a marsh or lake; So mer, a marshy soil, near water or the sea. So, for swl, sal, the earth, soil, land. Samhradh, Gaelic, summer, from Samh, the sun. Somerset may have been so called because the primitive inhabitants had an altar to the sun, samh, or because the country lay to the south.

TENBROOK

(Dutch.) Ten, at, and broek, a brook, a stream, or marsh the house or place at the brook.

ELY

Local. From Ely, a city in Cambridgeshire, England, and signifies the place of willows, from Helig, Cor. Br. and Welsh; Latin, Salix. Greek Ealig, an island; land in waterland. Greek, a marsh.

FOSDYKE

Local. The name of a canal, cut by the order of Henry VIII, from the great marsh near Lincoln, England, to the Trent. Fosse-dyke.

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