•ditch opened in a field or meadow (for evenly distributing water) · path in the snow · a plot of land, usually enclosed and occupied by trees and bushes
köken: From Arabic السَّاقِيَة (as-sāqiya, “the ditch”), from سَقَى (saqā, “to water”), through Andalusian Arabic. Compare Catalan séquia and Sicilian saja.
aile: acequia madre
Los caballos bebían en una gran acequia que de un punto a otro atravesaba el pueblo[…].
köken: Ultimately derived from Proto-Indo-European *skabʰ- (“to scratch”). Cognate with Cornish kawn, Latin scabo (“to scrape”) and Ancient Greek σκάφος (skáphos, “ship's hull”).