swamp

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. A piece of wet, spongy land; low ground saturated with water; soft, wet ground which may have a growth of certain kinds of trees, but is unfit for agricultural or pastoral purposes.
2. A type of wetland that stretches for vast distances, and is home to many creatures which have adapted specifically to that environment.
3. A place or situation that is foul or where progress is difficult.

Verb

1. To drench or fill with water.
2. To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of.
3. To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck.

Concepten

moeras

broek

drasland

moer

👩‍🍼

bedelven

overstelpen

🚿

verpletteren

zomp

ven

zwamp

besproeien

begieten

sproeien

vochtig maken

wateren

🚰

water geven

Donk

veenmoeras

bevochtigen

drenken

bevloeien

gieten

irrigeren

Synoniemen

marsh

bog

morass

fen

quagmire

wetland

mire

marshland

flood

inundate

pond

overwhelm

lake

quag

swampland

submerge

slough

deluge

wetlands

mud

moor

drench

Moor

bayou

engulf

heath

low

peatland

pool

sink

swale

wallaby

glade

fulfill

overburden

overflow

overgrow

overload

flat country

bog land

plunge

fill up

muckland

puddle

fill

everglade

reeds

reservoir

shallow water

marshy area

slash

dampen

clay

submergence

submersion

moss land

carr

thicket

marsh land

swamped ground

watering place

bogland

basin

creek bed

small lake

waterlog

depression

water

🚰

swamp hickory

swamp land

swampy ground

lagoon

fen land

jungle

irrigate

hollow

hole

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Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/swɒmp/

Etymologie (Engels)

Overgenomen van Middelengels: swam

Overgenomen van Oudengels: swamm

Overgenomen van Middelengels: sompe

Verwant aan Nederlands: zwamp

Verwant aan Middle Low German: swamp

Verwant aan Nederlands: zomp

Verwant aan Duits: Sumpf

Verwant aan Zweeds: sump

Verwant aan Nederlands: zwam

Verwant aan Duits: Schwamm

Verwant aan Zweeds: svamp

Verwant aan IJslands: svampur

Verwant aan Gothisch: 𐍃𐍅𐌿𐌼𐍃𐌻

In summary

From a fusion of Middle English swam (“swamp, muddy pool, bog, marsh”, also “fungus, mushroom”), from Old English swamm (“mushroom, fungus, sponge”), and Middle English sompe (“marsh, morass”), from Middle Dutch somp, sump (“marsh, swamp”), or Middle Low German sump (“marsh, swamp”), from Old Saxon *sump (“swamp, marsh”); all from Proto-West Germanic *sump, from Proto-Germanic *sumpaz.
Cognate with Dutch zwamp (“swamp, marsh, fen”), Middle Low German swamp (“sponge, mushroom”), Dutch zomp (“swamp, lake, marshy place”), German Low German Sump (“swamp, bog, marsh”), German Sumpf (“swamp”), Swedish sump (“swamp”). Related also to Dutch zwam (“fungus, punk, tinder”), German Schwamm (“mushroom, fungus, sponge”), Swedish svamp (“mushroom, fungus, sponge”), Icelandic svampur, sveppur (“fungus”), Gothic 𐍃𐍅𐌿𐌼𐍃𐌻 (swumsl, “a ditch”). Related to sump, swim.