English Explanatory Dictionary

salten

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. salted; salty
verb
  1. To make or become salty or salted

Word forms

salten more salten most salten saltens saltening saltened

Etymology

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”).

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