Etymology

salten

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Today it means: salted; salty Full definition →

Middle English salten ← Old English sealten ← Proto-West Germanic *saltan
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salten · adjective1

  1. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*saltanaz“salted”
  2. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*saltan
  3. Old English · inherited fromsealten
  4. Middle English · inherited fromsalten
  5. English todaysalten

From Middle English salten, from Old English sealten, from Proto-West Germanic *saltan, from Proto-Germanic *saltanaz (“salted”), past participle of *saltaną (“to salt”), equivalent to salt + -en. Cognate with Saterland Frisian soalten (“salted; salty”), Dutch gezouten (“salted”), German Low German solten (“salted”), German gesalzen (“salted”).

salten · verb2

  1. Latinsaliō
  2. Latinsaltus
  3. Englishsalt
  4. English todaysalten

From salt + -en (“to make like”).

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