The story
- Middle English · inherited fromwater cresse
- English todaywatercress
From Middle English water cresse, water-kresse, watercrasse, water cars, equivalent to water + cress. Cognate with West Frisian wetterkers (“watercress”), Dutch waterkers (“watercress”), German Wasserkresse (“waterkress”), Swedish vattenkrasse (“watercress”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.