marow

• margh, marȝ, marie, mariȝ, maroghe, marouȝ, marowe, marowȝ, marw, marwa, marwe, mary, marye, merȝw, merowe, merwȝ
• mearh, meari (Early Middle English); merȝþ, merȝþe (Essex); marwhe (Promptorium Parvulorum)
• marghe, marygh, mergh, merghe, merryghe, merygh (Lincolnshire, Yorkshire); maree (Northwest Midland)

From Old English mearg, from Proto-West Germanic *maʀg, from Proto-Germanic *mazgą, from Proto-Indo-European *mosgʰós.

Forms in /ɛ/ continue Mercian Old English merg or are influenced by Old Norse mergr (from the same Proto-Germanic source).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmarɔu̯/, /ˈmaruː/, /marx/, /ˈmɛr-/
• IPA^(key): /ˈmariː/ (West Midland), /ˈmar(i)x/, /ˈmɛr(i)x/ (Lincolnshire, Yorkshire)

marow (uncountable)

1. The marrow (internal substance of bones)
2. The spinal cord (nerve tissue running down the spine)
3. The soft interior portion of something:

   Synonym: pith

   1. The inside of fruits, grains, nuts, or seeds.
   2. The interior of a loaf of bread.
   3. (figurative) The most important or best part.

• marowy

• English: marrow
• Scots: merch, mery, mairch
• Yola: marrough

• “marwe, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.