Etymology

saltierra

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Today it means: A saline deposit in the inland lakes of Mexico. Full definition →

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The story

Borrowing from Spanish, from sal (“salt”) + tierra (“earth”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.