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DANISH · A WORD WITH POSSIBILITIES

sylte.

head cheese, brawn

5 characters2 syllables approx.Dansk language

Meaning & usage

noun[ˈsyld̥ə]
  1. head cheese, brawn

    common-gender
  2. face

    common-gender · informal
Where this word comes from

From Middle Low German sulte, from Old Saxon *sultia, from Proto-Germanic *sultijō (“salt water, brine”). Compare German Sülze and Dutch zult. Cognate with salt (“salt”).

verb[ˈsyld̥ə]
  1. to pickle, to preserve in a pickling solution

  2. to shelve a project (set aside or postpone)

    colloquial
Where this word comes from

From Middle Low German sulten, cf. German sülzen, sulzen. Derived from the noun.

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