Rish

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A rush or reed, the kind of marshy plant traditionally used for thatching or weaving, in Irish and Scottish dialect
2. A dialect word for a rush, meaning a grasslike plant that grows in wet ground
3. A reed or rush plant found in damp places, named this way in some Irish and Scottish regional speech

Etymology: The trail runs through Bulgarian before it reaches its Indo-Aryan origin. The Bulgarian form "Риш" (Riš) is the immediate source, and that Bulgarian form traces back to an Indo-Aryan language, the branch of Indian and South Asian languages that includes Sanskrit and Hindi. Tracing the word further would mean knowing its earlier meaning in those languages, and that link is the part this history leaves unconfirmed.