An old or dialectal term for a narrow water channel or small stream; possibly a regional variant of irrigation-related terminology.
Possibly from Old French or Occitan sources; related to agua or water-related terms. Dialectal or archaic origin uncertain.
Words like 'arigue' survive in regional dialects long after they disappear from standard language—they're fossils of how ancestors described their local landscape in words we've nearly forgotten.
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