salten
Middle English
/ˈsaltən/
verb
Definitions
- To salt food; to sprinkle with salt for flavour.
- To use salt to aid the preservation or keeping of food.
- (rare) To apply salt to the body for medicinal reasons.
- (rare) To apply salt to open wounds as a method of torture.
Etymology
Inherited from Old English sealtan inherited from Proto-Germanic *saltaną derived from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂l- (salt) affix from Middle English salt.
Origin
Middle English
salt
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- salt English
- salten English
- sal Latin
- salem, sal, sāl Latin
- sāl Latin
- *seh₂l- Proto-Indo-European
- *saltanaz Proto-Germanic
- *saltaną Proto-Germanic
- *saltą Proto-Germanic
- sealt Old English
- sealtan Old English
- sealten Old English
- salt Middle English
- salthous Middle English
- salta Old Norse
- salzan Old High German
- աղ Old Armenian
- *saltan Old Dutch
- *śālā Proto-Albanian
- *salHdus Proto-Balto-Slavic
- *saˀldus Proto-Balto-Slavic