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saiaditch or trench

Borrowed from Sicilian saja (“irrigation channel”), from Arabic سَاقِيَة (sāqiya, “irrigation”) (from a dialect in which q is pronounced as a glottal stop), from سَقَى (saqā, “to irrigate”). Compare Spanish acequia.

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The road to Italian

c. 750 CEArabic

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