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Where does “sealt” come from?

sealt (Old English) comes from Proto-West Germanic salt, from Proto-Germanic saltą, from Proto-Indo-European séh₂l-.

sealt (Old English): common salt; salt, salty, salted

Definitions

  1. common salt; salt, salty, salted

Ancestry of “sealt”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-West Germanicsaltsalty; salt
2Proto-Germanicsaltąsalt
3Proto-Indo-Europeanséh₂l-—

Words derived from “sealt”

  • salt
  • sal
  • salting
  • saltness
  • saltspoonful
  • saltbush
  • saltfish
  • saltworks
  • saltbox
  • saltspoon
  • salter
  • saltless
  • drysalter
  • saltgrass
  • protosalt
  • saltwort
  • desalt
  • subsalt
  • resalt
  • persalt
  • desalter
  • saltie
  • saltfree
  • saltmaking
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