swale

(Anglès)

Noun

1. A low tract of moist or marshy land.
2. A long narrow and shallow trough between ridges on a beach, running parallel to the coastline.
3. A shallow troughlike depression created to carry water during rainstorms or snow melts; a drainage ditch.
4. Bioswale, a shallow trough dug into the land on contour (horizontally with no slope), whose purpose is to allow water time to percolate into the soil.
5. A shallow, usually grassy depression sloping downward from a plains upland meadow or level vegetated ridgetop.

Verb

Alternative form of sweal (“melt and waste away, or singe”).

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/sweɪl/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: swale

Cognat amb nòrdic antic: svalr

Cognat amb islandès: svalir

In summary

Possibly from Middle English swale (“a shady place, a shadow”), perhaps of North Germanic origin; akin to Old Norse svalr (“cool, fresh”), Icelandic svalir (“a balcony running along a wall”).

Sinònims

Moor

marsh

morass

quagmire

swamp

hollow

bottom land

mire

low land

low lying land

slough

low-lying ground

vale

valley

low-lying land

bayou

bog

fen

glade

Traduccions

Bodensenke

Rigole

βάλτος

έλος

κοιλάς

noue

rigole

canaleta

valeta

Canaleta

Valetas de drenagem