The story
- Proto-Germanic · derived from*sultijō“salty water; brine”
- Middle English · derived fromsilen
- Middle English · inherited fromsilte
- English todaysilt
PIE word *sḗh₂l From Middle English silte, cilte, cylte, perhaps from Middle English silen ("to filter; strain"; equivalent to sile + -t), or cognate with Norwegian and Danish sylt (“salt marsh”), Middle Low German sulte (“salt-marsh”), German Sülze (“meat in aspic”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sultijō (“salty water; brine”). Related to Old English sealt (“salt”).
Words from the same roots
Middle Englishsilen all →
seelsile
Proto-Germanic*sultijō all →
souse
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.