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The word levee [is] from the French word levée (from the feminine past participle of the French verb lever, "to raise").
(re "dike"): In Anglo-Saxon, the word dic already existed and was pronounced with a hard c in northern England and as ditch in the south. Similar to Dutch, the English origins of the word lie in digging a trench and forming the upcast soil into a bank alongside it. This practice has meant that the name may be given to either the excavation or the bank.
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