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historical dictionaryetymonline-salt
Salt — Origin and history
- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Douglas Harper
- YEAR
- 2026
- PUBLISHER
- Online Etymology Dictionary
- DOI
- Not recorded
- SOURCE TYPE
- historical dictionary
- EXTERNAL RECORD
- OPEN ORIGINAL ↗
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RANKED REVEALS THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
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SCHOLARLY DISAGREEMENT
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opencontextproposed
Is the PIE salt root written *sal- or *séh₂l-?
Both appear in the reviewed references at different representational resolutions. SET-U reuses *séh₂l- as the canonical dossier node and records *sal- as an alternative notation, not a second word.
Headword history: PIE *sal-Shows the same alternative in another reviewed reference.
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CANONICAL RELATIONSHIP CLAIMS
EDGES THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
EDGE 484supportsestablished
salt → salt
Present-Day English → Middle English · historical continuation
- SOUND
- Middle English salt continues with stable spelling into modern English while pronunciation changes.
- MEANING
- The material sense remains while figurative savor, sailor, and chemical-class senses develop.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Merriam-Webster · Etymonline editors
Headword history and semantic extensionsDocuments inherited material salt plus later figurative and chemical senses.
EDGE 486supportsprobable
sealt → *saltom
Old English → Proto-Germanic · inheritance
- SOUND
- Old English sealt regularly continues reconstructed Proto-Germanic *saltom.
- MEANING
- The material salt sense remains stable across Germanic.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Etymonline · UT LRC editors
Headword history: Old English sealt from Proto-Germanic *saltomPublishes the Germanic reconstruction.
EDGE 487supportsprobable
*saltom → *séh₂l-
Proto-Germanic → Proto-Indo-European · inheritance
- SOUND
- Proto-Germanic *saltom belongs to the Indo-European salt family represented as *séh₂l- in the existing dossier and *sal- in other references.
- MEANING
- The material salt meaning remains stable; no payment sense exists at the reconstructed stage.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Mallory & Adams · Etymonline · UT LRC editors
Headword history: *saltom from PIE *sal-Publishes the consonantal root representation.
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No lexical witness currently cites this source.
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COMPARATIVE EVIDENCE
COGNATES, DESCENDANTS, AND RELATIVES
saline
English from Latinlearned salt-family descendant
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stage 2supports
Germanic and Anglo-Saxon Europe
Documents the Germanic-to-English chain.
Headword history: Proto-Germanic *saltom and Old English sealt · broadstage 4supports
Global scientific and figurative English
Documents the dated chemical extension and continuing figurative uses.
Headword semantic history: chemical sense from 1790 and figurative extensions · global070
NON-GENEALOGICAL CONNECTIONS
HISTORICAL CONTEXT, KEPT SEPARATE
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