Neuter
Salz
Meaning
- (neuter, strong, uncountable) salt, table salt, sal
- (Internet, neuter, strong) salt
Concepts
Synonyms
NaCl
Ionenverbindung
weißes Gold
Schlagfertigkeit
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/zalt͡s/
Etymology
In summary
Inherited from Middle High German salz, from Old High German salz (akin to Old Saxon salt, Old Dutch salt, Old English sealt, Old Norse salt), from Proto-West Germanic *salt, from Proto-Germanic *saltą, from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂l-, *séh₂ls. Compare Dutch zout, English salt, Danish salt. The Internet slang sense is a calque of English salt.
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