Swale

Swale

English

Etymology

From Old English *swalwe (“rushing water”), which could be related to swealwe. Also compare the proper noun Swallow.[1][2]

Proper noun

Swale

  1. A river, a tributary of the Ure in North Yorkshire, England.
  2. A strait between the Isle of Sheppey and the Kentish mainland; in full, The Swale.
  3. A local government district with borough status in Kent, England, created in 1974 with its headquarters in Sittingbourne and named after the channel. [3]

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Mills, D. (2011). A Dictionary of British Place-Names. United Kingdom: OUP Oxford, p. 339
  2. ^ English Place-Name Society. (1973). United Kingdom: The University Press, p. 7
  3. ^ District map (Kent)

Anagrams

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.