Sedge
/sΙdΚ/noun
A grasslike plant of the genus Carex and related genera, typically growing in wet places.
Did you know?Sedge is one of those old Germanic plant names that survived for centuries in English because people kept needing a word for the tough, wetland plants that marked boundaries, ditches, and sacred landscape edges.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*sed-
βto sit, settleβ
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*sagjaz
βsedge, rush-like plantβ
Old English
OE
secg
βsedge; also a sword-like blade or reed in some contextsβ
Middle English
ME
sedge
βsedge, a marsh plantβ
Modern English
English
sedge
βa grasslike wetland plantβ