adj
Meaning 1
salted; salty
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
Examples
- a salten marsh
Meaning relationships
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salten
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verb
Meaning 2
To make or become salty or salted
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive
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History
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”).
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sel- Proto-Indo-European *-yétor Proto-Indo-European *sl̥yétor Proto-Italic *saljō?? 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”).