Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To discard or abandon; to stop associating with (someone). · To deliberately crash-land an airplane on water. · To deliberately not attend classes; to play hookey. · To dig ditches.
A trench; a long, shallow indentation, as for irrigation or drainage. · A raised bank of earth and the hedgerow on top.
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *dīkaz Proto-West Germanic *dīk Old English dīċ Middle English dich English ditch From Middle English dich, from Old English dīċ (“trench, moat”) from Proto-Germanic *dīkaz (compare Swedish dike, Icelandic díki, West Frisian dyk (“dam”), Dutch dijk (“dam”), German Teich (“pond”)), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeygʷ- (“to stick, set up”) (compare Latin fīgō (“to affix, fasten”), Lithuanian diegti (“to prick; plant”), dýgsti (“to geminate, grow”)). Doublet of dike.
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