fen

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. A type of wetland fed by ground water and runoff, containing peat below the waterline, characteristically alkaline.
2. (broadly) Any swamp or mire (especially with negative connotations).

Intj

Used in children's games to prevent or forestall another player's action; a check or bar.

Sinonieme

marsh

bog

swamp

mire

morass

marshland

quagmire

wetland

moor

quag

slough

fenland

heath

slack

swampland

swampy ground

bayou

carr

fain

fell

mere

ooze

reservoir

swale

wetlands

Moor

Vertalings

palude

marais

βάλτος

marécage

Sumpf

Moor

moeras

pantano

έλος

pântano

pantà

aiguamoll

lodaçal

brejo

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/fɛn/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: fen

Geërf van Old English: fenn

Verwante met Fries: fean

Verwante met Nederlands: veen

Verwante met Duits: Fenn

Verwante met Noors: fen

Verwante met Middle Irish: en

Verwante met Pruisies: pannean

Verwante met Sanskrit: पङ्क

In summary

From Middle English fen, fenne, from Old English fenn (“fen; marsh; mud; dirt”), Proto-West Germanic *fani, from Proto-Germanic *fanją, from Proto-Indo-European *pen- (“bog, mire”).
See also West Frisian fean, Dutch veen, German Fenn, Norwegian fen; also Middle Irish en (“water”), enach (“swamp”), Old Prussian pannean (“peat-bog”), Sanskrit पङ्क (paṅka, “marsh, mud, mire, slough”).