Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A low tract of moist or marshy land. · A long narrow and shallow trough between ridges on a beach, running parallel to the coastline. · A shallow troughlike depression created to carry water during rainstorms or snow melts; a drainage ditch. · 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.
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”).
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