salten.
salted; salty
Meaning & usage
salted; salty
Where this word comes from
From Middle English salten, from Old English sealten, from Proto-West Germanic *saltan, from Proto-Germanic *saltanaz (“salted”), past participle of *saltaną (“to salt”), equivalent to salt + -en. Cognate with Saterland Frisian soalten (“salted; salty”), Dutch gezouten (“salted”), German Low German solten (“salted”), German gesalzen (“salted”).
To make or become salty or salted
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Latin saliō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin saltusbor. English salt English -en English salten From salt + -en (“to make like”).
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