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See also:Salt,SALT,sâlt,sålt,and-salt

English

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Etymology 1

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PIE word
*séh₂ls

FromMiddle Englishsalt, fromOld Englishsealt, fromProto-West Germanic*salt, fromProto-Germanic*saltą, fromProto-Indo-European*séh₂ls(“salt”).Doublet ofsal, ultimately fromLatinsāl(“salt”), which it superseded as the general term for "salt".

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Noun

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Salt crystals

salt (countable anduncountable,pluralsalts)

  2. A common substance, chemically consisting mainly ofsodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a foodingredient,seasoning,condiment, andpreservative.
    Synonym:common salt
    Near-synonyms:table salt,rock salt,road salt
    • 1430, Thomas Austin, editor,Two Fifteenth-century Cookery-books. Harleian ms. 279 (ab. 1430), & Harl. ms. 4016 (ab. 1450), with Extracts from Ashmole ms. 1429, Laud ms. 553, & Douce ms. 55 (Early English Text Society, Original Series;91), volume 1, London: Routledge; N. Trübner & Co., published1888,→OCLC, page11:
      Take gode almaunde mylke y-draw wyth wyn, an let hem boyle to-gederys, an caste þer-to Safroun anSalt;[…]
      Take good almond milk made with wine, and let it boil together, and add thereto Saffron andSalt; […]
    • 1880,Arthur Herbert Church,Food: Some Account of Its Sources, Constituents and Uses‎[1], London: Chapman and Hall,page24:
      Commonsalt, chloride of sodium, appears to be essential to the life of the higher animals.
    • 2013,Bear Grylls,True Grit: the Epic True Stories of Heroism and Survival That Have Shaped My Life,→ISBN, page 9:
      Nando was pierced with grief, but he didn't allow himself to cry. Tears, he knew, would cost his bodysalt. Withoutsalt, you die.
    • 2015 July 2, Michael Pearson, “6 things to know about hot dog king Joey Chestnut”, inCNN‎[2]:
      Here’s a grocery list of foods Chestnut has eaten competitively, drawn from his Major League Eating bio: apple pie, asparagus, boysenberry pie, brats, burritos, chicken spiedies (a kind of sandwich), chicken wings, chili, corned beef sandwiches, eggs, fish tacos, funnel cake, grilled cheese sandwiches, gyoza, Krystal hamburgers, horseshoe sandwiches, hot dogs, ice cream, jalapeno poppers, kolaches, pastrami sandwiches, Philly cheesesteaks, pierogi, pizza, pork ribs, pulled pork, poutine,salt potatoes, shrimp, tacos, tamales, turkey and Twinkies.
  4. (chemistry) One of thecompounds formed from thereaction of anacid with abase, where a positiveion replaces ahydrogen of the acid.
  5. (uncommon, countable) Asalt marsh, a saline marsh at the shore of a sea.
  6. (slang, countable) Asailor(alsoold salt).
    • 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne,The Scarlet Letter:
      Around the door are generally to be seen, laughing and gossiping, clusters of oldsalts.
    • 1851 November 14,Herman Melville, “chapter 1”, inMoby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.:Harper & Brothers; London:Richard Bentley,→OCLC:
      I never go as a passenger; nor, though I am something of asalt, do I ever go to sea as a Commodore, or a Captain, or a Cook.
  7. (cryptography) A sequence ofrandom data added toplain text data (such as passwords or messages) prior toencryption orhashing, in order to makebrute forcedecryption more difficult.
  8. A person who seeks employment at a company in order to (once employed by it) help unionize it.
  9. (obsolete, uncountable)Flavour;taste;seasoning.
  10. (obsolete, uncountable)Piquancy;wit;sense.
    Atticsalt
  11. (obsolete, countable) A dish for salt at table; asalt cellar.
  12. (historical, in theplural)Epsom salts or other salt used as amedicine.
  13. (figurative, uncountable)Skepticism andcommon sense.
    Any politician's statements must be takenwith a grain ofsalt, but his need to be taken with a whole shaker ofsalt.
  15. (Internetslang, uncountable) Tears; indignation; outrage; arguing.
    There was so muchsalt in thatthread about the poor casting decision.
  16. (UK, historical, uncountable) Themoney demanded byEtonschoolboys during themontem.
Synonyms
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Compound words and expressions
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Descendants
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Translations
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Seesalt/translations § Noun.

Adjective

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salt (comparativemoresalt,superlativemostsalt)

  1. Of water: containing salt,saline.
    • 1874,Marcus Clarke,For the Term of His Natural Life, Penguin, published2009, page97:
      After a few days of north-west wind, the waters of the Gordon will be foundsalt for twelve miles up from the bar.
  2. Treated with salt as apreservative;cured with salt,salted.
    salt beef
  3. Of land, fields etc.: flooded by the sea.
    asalt marsh
  4. Of plants: growing in the sea or on land flooded by the sea.
    salt grass
  5. Related to saltdeposits,excavation,processing oruse.
    asalt mine
    Thesalt factory is a key connecting element in the seawater infrastructure.
  6. (figurative, obsolete) Bitter; sharp; pungent.
  7. (figurative, obsolete) Salacious; lecherous; lustful; (of animals) inheat.
    • c.1603–1604 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act III, scene iii]:
      It is impossible you should see this, / Were they as prime as goats, as hot as monkeys, / Assalt as wolves in pride, and fools as gross / As ignorance made drunk.
    • 1653,Thomas Urquhart, transl.,TheFirst Book of the works of Mr.Francis Rabelais‎[3],Book 2, Chapter 22, p. 153:
      And when he saw that all the dogs were flocking about her, yarring at the retardment of their accesse to her, and every way keeping such a coyle with her, as they are wont to do about a proud orsalt bitch, he forthwith departed[…]
  8. (colloquial, archaic)Costly;expensive.
Derived terms
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Translations
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salty
saline
related to salt deposits, excavation, processing or use
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Verb

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salt (third-person singular simple presentsalts,present participlesalting,simple past and past participlesalted)

  1. (transitive) Toadd salt to.
    Synonym:salt down
    tosalt fish, beef, or pork;tosalt the city streets in the winter
  2. (intransitive) Todeposit salt as asalinesolution.
    The brine begins tosalt.
  3. (nautical, of a ship) Tofill with salt between thetimbers andplanks for thepreservation of thetimber.
  4. Toinsert orinject something into an object to give itproperties it would notnaturally have.
    1. (mining) Toblastmetal into(as a portion of a mine) in order to cause to appear to be aproductiveseam.
    2. (archaeology) To addbogusevidence to anarchaeological site.
    3. (transitive) To add certain chemicalelements to (anuclear orconventional weapon) so that it generates moreradiation.
      • 1964, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission,The Effects of Nuclear Weapons, page417:
        The composition of the fallout can also be changed by "salting" the weapon to be detonated. This consists in the inclusion of significant quantities of certain elements, possibly enriched in specific isotopes, for the purpose of producing induced radioactivity. There are several reasons why a weapon might besalted.
  5. (transitive) Tosprinklethroughout.
    Theysalted the document with arcane language.
    • 1976 December 11, Ronnie Allen, “No Political Eunuch”, inGay Community News, volume 4, number24, page 4:
      The Libertarians wish we had won the Vietnamese War, they would like to revoke civil rights legislation, they believe (even though they are supposedly anti-state) in a stronger Pentagon. They aresalted with Nixonites, Young Americans for Freedom, John Birchers, Reaganites — in other words the old Joe McCarthy gang again. I thought they had left us, or reformed, or taken up knitting.
    • 1993,The Journal of Jewish Thought & Philosophy, page154:
      These were pamphlets, often written in various Jewish vernaculars, describing the location of the Holy sites andsalting the accounts with mythic and homiletical materials.
  6. (cryptography) To add filler bytes before encrypting, in order to makebrute-forcedecryption more resource-intensive.
  7. To render a thinguseless.
    1. (military, transitive) To sow with salt(of land), symbolizing a curse on its re-inhabitation.
      In this place were put to the ground andsalted the houses of José Mascarenhas.
    2. (wikijargon) To lock a page title so it cannot becreated.
Antonyms
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  • (antonym(s) of“add salt”):desalt
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Translations
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to add salt to
to add something into an object
to include colorful language
to add filler bytes before encryption
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed fromLatinsaltus.

Noun

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salt (pluralsalts)

  1. (obsolete) Abounding; aleaping; aprance.
    • 1616,Ben Jonson,The Devil Is an Ass, in Gifford’s 1816 edition volume V page67
      […] he hath the skill to draw
      Their nectar forth, with kissing; and could make
      More wantonsalts from this brave promontory,
      Down to this valley, than the nimble roe;

Anagrams

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Catalan

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Etymology

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Inherited fromOld Catalansalt, fromLatinsaltus.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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salt m (pluralsalts)

  1. jump
  2. waterfall

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References

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  • “salt” inDiccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
  • “salt” inDiccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Crimean Gothic

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Etymology

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FromProto-Germanic*saltą, fromProto-Indo-European*seh₂l-.

Noun

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salt

  1. salt
    • 1562, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq:
      Salt. Sal.

Czech

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Noun

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salt

  1. genitiveplural ofsalto

Danish

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Etymology 1

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FromOld Norsesaltr(“salt”)

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /salˀd/,[sælˀd̥],[sælˀt]

Adjective

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salt (plural and definite singular attributivesalte)

  1. salty,salt
Inflection
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Inflection ofsalt
positivecomparativesuperlative
indefinite common singularsaltsalteresaltest2
indefinite neuter singularsaltsalteresaltest2
pluralsaltesalteresaltest2
definite attributive1saltesalteresalteste

1 When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite,
the corresponding "indefinite" form is used.
2 The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.

See also

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Basic tastes in Danish(layout ·text)
sweetsoursaltybitterspicysavory
sødsursaltbitterstærkumami

Etymology 2

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FromOld Norsesalt (akin toOld Saxonsalt,Old High Germansalz, Old Dutchsalt,Old Englishsealt), fromProto-Germanic*saltą, fromProto-Indo-European*séh₂l-,*séh₂ls. Compare Icelandic, Norwegian, andSwedishsalt.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /salˀt/,[sæ̝lˀt]

Noun

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salt n (singular definitesaltet,plural indefinitesalte)

  1. salt
Inflection
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Declension ofsalt
neuter
gender		singularplural
indefinitedefiniteindefinitedefinite
nominativesaltsaltetsaltesaltene
genitivesaltssaltetssaltessaltenes

Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

Verb

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salt

  1. imperative ofsalte
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Faroese

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salt

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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FromOld Norsesalt, fromProto-Germanic*saltą, fromProto-Indo-European*séh₂l-,*séh₂ls,*sáls.

Noun

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salt n (genitive singularsalts, pluralsølt)

  1. salt
Declension
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n5singularplural
indefinitedefiniteindefinitedefinite
nominativesaltsaltiðsøltsøltini
accusativesaltsaltiðsøltsøltini
dativesaltisaltinumsøltumsøltunum
genitivesaltssaltsinssaltasaltanna

Etymology 2

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FromOld Norsesaltr(“salt”), fromProto-Indo-European*séh₂l-,*séh₂ls,*sáls.

Adjective

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salt

  1. salty
Declension
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Declension ofsalt (a21)
singularmasculinefeminineneuter
nominativesaltursøltsalt
accusativesaltansaltasalt
dativesøltumsaltarisøltum
genitivesaltssaltar/
saltrar		salts
pluralmasculinefeminineneuter
nominativesaltirsaltarsølt
accusativesaltarsaltarsølt
dativesøltumsøltumsøltum
genitivesalta
saltra		salta
saltra		salta
saltra

Friulian

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Etymology

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FromLatinsaltus.

Noun

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salt m (pluralsalts)

  1. jump,leap,spring

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Gothic

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Romanization

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salt

  1. romanization of𐍃𐌰𐌻𐍄

Icelandic

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Etymology

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FromOld Norsesalt, fromProto-Germanic*saltą, fromProto-Indo-European*séh₂l-,*séh₂ls,*sáls.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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salt n (genitive singularsalts,nominative pluralsölt)

  1. salt
    Geturðu rétt mérsaltið?
    Can you pass me thesalt?

Declension

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Declension ofsalt (neuter)
singularplural
indefinitedefiniteindefinitedefinite
nominativesaltsaltiðsöltsöltin
accusativesaltsaltiðsöltsöltin
dativesaltisaltinusöltumsöltunum
genitivesaltssaltsinssaltasaltanna

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Adjective

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salt

  1. positive degreeneutersingularnominative/accusative ofsaltur

Latvian

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Etymology

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FromProto-Indo-European*ḱel-(“cold; hot”). Cognates includeLithuanianšálti.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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salt (intransitive,1stconjugation,presentsalstu,salsti,salst,pastsalu)

  1. tofreeze

Conjugation

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Conjugation ofsalt (1st)
indicative(īstenībasizteiksme)imperative
(pavēlesizteiksme)
present
(tagadne)		past
(pagātne)		future
(nākotne)
1st personsgessalstusalusalšu—
2nd personsgtusalstisalisalsisalsti
3rd personsgviņš,viņasalstsalasalslaisalst
1st personplmēssalstamsalāmsalsimsalsim
2nd personpljūssalstatsalātsalsiet,
salsit		salstiet
3rd personplviņi,viņassalstsalasalslaisalst
renarrative(atstāstījumaizteiksme)participles(divdabji)
presentsalstotpresent active 1(adj.)salstošs
pastesotsalispresent active 2(adv.)saldams
futuresalšotpresent active 3(adv.)salstot
imperativelaisalstotpresent active 4(obj.)salstam
conditional(vēlējumaizteiksme)past activesalis
presentsaltupresent passivesalstams
pastbūtusalispast passivesalts
debitive(vajadzībasizteiksme)nominal forms
indicative(būt)jāsalstinfinitive(nenoteiksme)salt
conjunctive 1esotjāsalstnegative infinitivenesalt
conjunctive 2jāsalstotverbal nounsalšana

Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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FromOld Englishsealt, fromProto-West Germanic*salt, fromProto-Germanic*saltą (noun) andProto-Germanic*saltaz (adjective).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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salt (uncountable)

  1. salt(sodium chloride)
  2. Something containing or for storing salt
  3. Any of a group of crystalline compounds that resemble salt

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Adjective

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salt (plural and weak singularsalte,comparativesalter,superlativesaltest)

  1. salty, tasting of salt
  2. salted, coated in salt

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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FromOld Norsesaltr.

Adjective

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salt (neuter singularsalt,definite singular and pluralsalte,comparativesaltere,indefinite superlativesaltest,definite superlativesalteste)

  1. salty,salt,salted
    salte peanøtter ―salted peanuts

Etymology 2

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FromOld Norsesalt (akin toOld Saxonsalt,Old High Germansalz, Old Dutchsalt,Old Englishsealt), fromProto-Germanic*saltą, fromProto-Indo-European*séh₂l-,*séh₂ls. Compare Danish, Swedish andIcelandicsalt.

Noun

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salt n (definite singularsaltet,indefinite pluralsalter,definite pluralsaltaorsaltene)

  1. salt

Etymology 3

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Verb

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salt

  1. imperative ofsalte

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Norwegian NynorskWikipedia has an article on:
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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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FromOld Norsesaltr.

Adjective

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salt (neuter singularsalt,definite singular and pluralsalte,comparativesaltare,indefinite superlativesaltast,definite superlativesaltaste)

  1. salty,salt,salted

Etymology 2

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FromOld Norsesalt (akin toOld Saxonsalt,Old High Germansalz, Old Dutchsalt,Old Englishsealt), fromProto-Germanic*saltą, fromProto-Indo-European*séh₂l-,*séh₂ls.

Noun

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salt n (definite singularsaltet,indefinite pluralsalt,definite pluralsalta)

  1. salt

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Old Danish

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Etymology 1

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FromOld Norsesalt.

Noun

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salt n

  1. salt
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Etymology 2

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FromOld Norsesaltr.

Adjective

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salt

  1. salty,salt
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Old Frisian

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Etymology

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FromProto-West Germanic*salt(“salt”)

Noun

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salt n

  1. salt

Inflection

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Declension ofsalt (neuter a-stem)
singularplural
nominativesaltsalt
accusativesaltsalt
genitivesaltessalta
dativesaltesaltum,saltem

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Adjective

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salt

  1. salty,salted

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Old Norse

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Etymology 1

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FromProto-Germanic*saltą.

Noun

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salt n

  1. salt
Declension
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Declension ofsalt (stronga-stem)
neutersingularplural
indefinitedefiniteindefinitedefinite
nominativesaltsaltitsǫltsǫltin
accusativesaltsaltitsǫltsǫltin
dativesaltisaltinusǫltumsǫltunum
genitivesaltssaltsinssaltasaltanna
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

Adjective

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salt

  1. strongneuternominative/accusativesingular ofsaltr(“salty”)

Further reading

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  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “salt”, inA Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at theInternet Archive

Old Swedish

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Etymology

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FromOld Norsesalt.

Noun

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salt n

  1. salt

Declension

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Declension ofsalt (stronga-stem)
neutersingularplural
indefinitedefiniteindefinitedefinite
nominativesaltsaltitsaltsaltin
accusativesaltsaltitsaltsaltin
dativesalti,saltesaltinu,saltenosaltum,saltomsaltumin,saltomen
genitivesaltssaltsinssaltasaltanna

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Inherited fromLatinsaltus.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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salt n (pluralsalturi)

  1. leap
  2. saltation

Declension

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Declension ofsalt
singularplural
indefinitedefiniteindefinitedefinite
nominative-accusativesaltsaltulsalturisalturile
genitive-dativesaltsaltuluisalturisalturilor
vocativesaltulesalturilor

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Verb

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salt

  1. first-personsingularpresentindicative/subjunctive ofsălta

Swedish

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SwedishWikipedia has an article on:
Wikipediasv

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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FromOld Swedishsalter, fromOld Norsesaltr, fromProto-Germanic*saltaz, fromProto-Indo-European*séh₂l-,*séh₂ls,*sáls.

Adjective

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salt (comparativesaltare,superlativesaltast)

  1. salty
    Antonym:(of water)söt
    Soppan är försalt
    The soup is toosalty
Declension
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Inflection ofsalt
Indefinitepositivecomparativesuperlative1
common singularsaltsaltaresaltast
neuter singularsaltsaltaresaltast
pluralsaltasaltaresaltast
masculine plural2saltesaltaresaltast
Definitepositivecomparativesuperlative
masculine singular3saltesaltaresaltaste
allsaltasaltaresaltaste

1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
2 Dated or archaic.
3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

Etymology 2

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FromOld Swedishsalt, fromOld Norsesalt (akin to Old Saxonsalt, Old High Germansalz, Old Dutchsalt, Old Englishsealt), fromProto-Germanic*saltą, fromProto-Indo-European*séh₂l-,*séh₂ls. Compare Danish, Icelandic, Norwegiansalt.

salt (bordssalt) i ettsaltkar / ensaltströare [salt (tablesalt) in a salt shaker]

Noun

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salt n

  1. salt
    1. (uncountable)sodium chloride (NaCl), used extensively as a condiment and preservative.
      Synonyms:koksalt,(table salt)bordssalt
      salt ochpeppar
      salt and pepper
    2. (chemistry) One of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base, where a positive ion replaces a hydrogen of the acid.
Declension
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Declension ofsalt
nominativegenitive
singularindefinitesaltsalts
definitesaltetsaltets
pluralindefinitesaltersalters
definitesalternasalternas
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Tagalog

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Etymology

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Semantic loan fromEnglishas in, via anunadapted borrowing fromEnglishsalt, which is acalque ofTagalogasin, due tohomophony withEnglishas in.

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Interjection

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salt (Baybayin spellingᜐᜓᜎ᜔ᜆ᜔)(slang, dated)

  1. mild intensifier:literally
    Ang init ng araw,salt pare!
    The sun is so hot,as in [HOT] bro!

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Turkish

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Etymology

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FromProto-Turkic*sal-(“to unleash”).

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Adverb

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salt

  1. exclusively,only,just,absolute
    saltçoğunluk
    absolute majority

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Further reading

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  • “salt”, inTurkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
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