English
sheugh
Sheugh comes from Irish seoch ‘dike, drain, sheugh’, and goes back to English sough.
- English1500–presentsough
- Irishc. 1200–presentseoch‘dike, drain, sheugh’
- Englishearliest quotation 2013sheugh
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- English1500–presentsough
- Irishc. 1200–presentseoch‘dike, drain, sheugh’
- Englishearliest quotation 2013sheugh
Earliest quotation: 2013, Frank McNally, When Anglophone lines get crossed: “The original ditches were created by digging trenches, as…”
Every English word from English sough
Today it means
noun A ditch, especially a field boundary ditch usually used to drain fields and mark their boundaries.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / English sough / sheugh