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Where does “saltaną” come from?

saltaną (Proto-Germanic) comes from Proto-Indo-European séh₂l-.

saltaną (Proto-Germanic): to salt, to pickle

Definitions

  1. to salt, to pickle

Ancestry of “saltaną”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-Europeanséh₂l-—

Words derived from “saltaną”

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