salt
adjective/sɔːlt/, /sɒlt/
/sɔːlt/
[only before noun]- containing, tasting of or preserved with salt
- salt water
- salt beef
Word OriginOld English sealt (noun), sealtan (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zout and German Salz (nouns), from an Indo-European root shared by Latin sal, Greek hals ‘salt’.
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