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

zwamp

ven

begieten

besproeien

bevloeien

bevochtigen

drenken

gieten

irrigeren

sproeien

vochtig maken

water geven

wateren

Donk

veenmoeras

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/swɒmp/

Etymologie (Engels)

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.