Below we display: a Proto-Indo-European etymon from Pokorny, with an English gloss;
our Semantic Field
Reflexes are annotated with: Part-of-Speech and/or other Grammatical
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Pokorny Etymon: 1. sal- 'salt; brackish water'
Indo-European Reflexes:
| Family/Language | Reflex(es) | PoS/Gram. | Gloss | Source(s) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Celtic | ||||||||
| Old Irish: | salann | n | salt | LRC | ||||
| English | ||||||||
| Old English: | sealt | n.neut | salt | W7 | ||||
| sealt-ȳð | n.str.fem | lit. salt-wave | LRC | |||||
| Middle English: | cylte | n | silt | W7 | ||||
| salade | n | salad | W7 | |||||
| salarie | n | salary | W7 | |||||
| saline | adj | saline | W7 | |||||
| salt | n | salt | W7 | |||||
| sauce | n | sauce | W7 | |||||
| sausige | n | sausage | W7 | |||||
| sousen | vb | to souse | W7 | |||||
| English: | salad | n | raw vegetables served with dressing | AHD/W7 | ||||
| salami | n | highly seasoned pork/beef sausage | AHD/W7 | |||||
| salary | n | stipend, fixed compensation paid for services | AHD/W7 | |||||
| sali- | pfx | salt | AHD/W7 | |||||
| saline | adj | containing/consisting of salt | AHD/W7 | |||||
| salt | adj | salty, saline | AHD/W7 | |||||
| salt | n | sodium chloride (used to season/preserve food) | AHD/W7 | |||||
| sauce | n | condiment/relish for food | AHD/W7 | |||||
| sausage | n | highly seasoned minced meat stuffed in intestinal casings | AHD/W7 | |||||
| silt | n | loose sedimentary material with tiny rock particles | AHD/W7 | |||||
| souse | vb | to pickle | AHD/W7 | |||||
| W-Germanic | ||||||||
| Old High German: | salz | n | salt | W7 | ||||
| sulza | n | brine | W7 | |||||
| sulza | n | salt marsh | W7 | |||||
| N-Germanic | ||||||||
| Danish: | sylt | n | salt marsh | W7 | ||||
| E-Germanic | ||||||||
| Gothic: | salt | n | salt | LRC | ||||
| Italic | ||||||||
| Latin: | sāl, salis | n.masc | salt, brine, sea(water) | W7 | ||||
| salarium | n.neut | salary, salt money, pension | W7 | |||||
| salarius | adj | of salt | W7 | |||||
| salinus | adj | of salt | W7 | |||||
| sallo, sallere | vb | to salt | W7 | |||||
| salsus | adj | salted | W7 | |||||
| Late Latin: | salsicia | n.fem | sausage | W7 | ||||
| Italian: | salame | n.masc | salami | W7 | ||||
| salami | n.masc | salami | W7 | |||||
| salare | vb | to salt | W7 | |||||
| sale | n.masc | salt | W7 | |||||
| Old North French: | saussiche | n.fem | sausage | W7 | ||||
| Middle French: | salade | n.fem | salad | W7 | ||||
| sauce | n.fem | sauce, gravy | W7 | |||||
| Old Provencal: | sal | n.masc | salt | W7 | ||||
| salada | n.fem | salad | W7 | |||||
| salar | vb | to salt | W7 | |||||
| Baltic | ||||||||
| Latvian: | sāls | n | salt | LRC | ||||
| Slavic | ||||||||
| Old Church Slavonic: | solь | n.fem | salt | LRC | ||||
| Hellenic | ||||||||
| Homeric Greek: | ἅλς | n.masc | salt | LRC | ||||
| Armenian | ||||||||
| Classical Armenian: | ał | n | salt | LRC | ||||
| Indic | ||||||||
| Sanskrit: | sal-ilá | n | sea | LRC | ||||
| Tocharian | ||||||||
| Tocharian A: | sāle | n | salt | LRC | ||||
Key to Part-of-Speech/Grammatical feature abbreviations:
| Abbrev. | Meaning | |
|---|---|---|
| adj | = | adjective |
| fem | = | feminine (gender) |
| masc | = | masculine (gender) |
| n | = | noun |
| neut | = | neuter (gender) |
| pfx | = | prefix |
| str | = | strong (inflection) |
| vb | = | verb |
Key to information Source codes (always with 'LRC' as editor):
| Code | Citation | |
|---|---|---|
| AHD | = | Calvert Watkins: The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots, 2nd ed. (2000) |
| LRC | = | Linguistics Research Center, University of Texas, Austin |
| W7 | = | Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary (1963) |