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NORWEGIAN BOKMÅL · A WORD WITH POSSIBILITIES

salt.

salty, salt, salted

4 characters1 syllables approx.Norsk bokmål language

Meaning & usage

adj/sɑlt/
  1. salty, salt, salted

    salte peanøtter
Where this word comes from

From Old Norse saltr.

noun/sɑlt/
  1. salt

    neuter
Where this word comes from

From Old Norse salt (akin to Old Saxon salt, Old High German salz, Old Dutch salt, Old English sealt), from Proto-Germanic *saltą, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂l-, *sḗh₂l. Compare Danish, Swedish and Icelandic salt.

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