salt
Middle English
/salt/
noun
Definitions
- salt sodium chloride
- Something containing or for storing salt
- Any of a group of crystalline compounds that resemble salt
Etymology
Inherited from Old English sealt (salt) derived from Proto-Germanic *saltą (salt), *saltaz (salty).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*saltaz
Gloss
salty
Concept
Semantic Field
Sense perception
Ontological Category
Property
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antisalt English
- bisalt English
- blacksalter English
- desalt English
- hydrosalt English
- nonsalt English
- oversalt English
- oxysalt English
- persalt English
- polysalt English
- protosalt English
- resalt English
- sal English
- salt English
- salt beef English
- salt-free English
- saltbox English
- saltbush English
- saltcat English
- salten English
- salter English
- saltery English
- salteth English
- saltfish English
- saltfoot English
- saltfree English
- saltgrass English
- saltie English
- saltine English
- saltish English
- saltless English
- saltlike English
- saltly English
- saltmaker English
- saltmaking English
- saltmouth English
- saltness English
- saltproof English
- saltspoon English
- saltwater English
- saltweed English
- saltwork English
- saltworks English
- saltwort English
- salty English
- sesquisalt English
- subsalt English
- sulfosalt English
- sulphosalt English
- supersalt English
- undersalt English
- *seh₂l- Proto-Indo-European
- *seh₂l-, *séh₂l- Proto-Indo-European
- *saltaz Proto-Germanic
- *saltą Proto-Germanic
- sealt Old English
- sealtan Old English
- sealten Old English
- sealtern Old English
- sealthūs Old English
- sealtnes Old English
- sealtyþ Old English
- sieltan Old English
- hous Middle English
- salte Middle English
- salten Middle English
- salthous Middle English
- selt Middle English
- salt Old Norse
- saltr Old Norse
- 𐍃𐌰𐌻𐍄 Gothic
- *salt gmw-pro
- *salt Old Dutch
- sálti Northern Sami
- saut Scots
- jo̧o̧ļ Marshallese
- salt Old Frisian
- saalt North Frisian
- salt Crimean Gothic
- saltchuck Chinook Jargon
- sohl Kosraean
- č̕aʔak Nootka