salten

Meanings

Adjective

Verb

Origin

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

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