causeway

Etymology
From, with the first element from , from , or , , from  (compare modern 🇨🇬 from 🇨🇬, itself from the same source), either from , , or alternatively from 🇨🇬, from. The second element corresponds to English way.

Noun

 * 1) A road that is raised so as to be above water, marshland, and similar low-lying obstacles, which in some cases may flood periodically (e.g. due to tides). Originally causeways were much like dykes, generally pierced to let water through, whereas many modern causeways are more like bridges or viaducts.
 * 2) * 1836, Account of the Old Bridge at Stratford-le-Bow in Essex from Alfred Burges, Esq. addressed to Sir Henry Ellis
 * . . .the passage over the water of the Luye at Stratford atte Bowe, anciently used to be in a certain place which is called the Old Forde, which is distant from the place where the bridges and causeway now are nearly one mile, at which passage many persons passing over it at divers times were drowned, and in great danger, and when after so much danger came to the knowledge of Lady Matilda, Queen of England

Translations

 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 堤道, 砌道
 * Czech:, násyp
 * Finnish: pengertie
 * French:
 * German:, , Dammstraße, ,
 * Hungarian: töltésút,, gátút, , burkolt gázló
 * Irish: cabhsa
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 土手道,
 * Malay: jalan tambak,
 * Norman: tailli
 * Polish:, droga na grobli
 * Russian:, , насыпна́я доро́га
 * Scottish Gaelic: cabhsair
 * Spanish: calzada elevada
 * Tamil:
 * Turkish:
 * Welsh: sarn

Verb

 * 1)  To, to.