Source etymology 1 · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗A common substance, chemically consisting mainly of sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a food ingredient, seasoning, condiment, and preservative. · One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid. · A salt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea. · A sailor (also old salt).
PIE word *sḗh₂l From Middle English salt, from Old English sealt, from Proto-West Germanic *salt, from Proto-Germanic *saltą, from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l (“salt”). Doublet of sal, salary, and salsa, all ultimately from Latin sāl (“salt”), which it superseded as the general term for "salt". Cognate with Dutch zout, German Salz, Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish salt.
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- Inherited-form mentionsaltenm
- Inherited-form mentionsealtang
- Inherited-form mention*saltgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*saltągem-pro
- Inherited-form mention*sḗh₂line-pro · salt
- Doublet mentionsalen
- Doublet mentionsalaryen
- Doublet mentionsalsaen
- Cognate mentionsālla · salt
- Cognate mentionzoutnl
- Cognate mentionSalzde
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