Etymology

cordgrass

C3O1R1D2G2R1A1S1S1

Today it means: Any of various species of coastal wetland grass in the genus Spartina. Full definition →

English grass ← Middle English gras ← Old English græs
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Englishcord
  2. Proto-Indo-European*gʰreh₁-
  3. Proto-Germanic*grasą
  4. Proto-West Germanic*gras
  5. Old Englishgræs
  6. Middle Englishgras
  7. Englishgrass
  8. English todaycordgrass

From cord + grass.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.