The story
- Proto-Germanic · inherited from*marikiz“waterplant, celery, parsley”
- Old English · inherited fromwudemerċe
- Middle English · inherited fromwodemarch
- English todaywoodmarch
From Middle English wodemarch, wudemerch, from Old English wudemerċe, wudumerċe, from wude, wudu (“wood”) + merċe, mereċe (a type of aquatic plant), from Proto-Germanic *marikiz (“waterplant, celery, parsley”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.