salty

Meaning

1. Tasting of salt.
2. Containing salt.
3. (figuratively) Coarse; provocative; earthy.
4. (figuratively) Experienced, especially used to indicate a veteran of the naval services; salty dog (from salt of the sea).
5. (slang) Irritated, annoyed, angry, bitter, bitchy.
6. Pertaining to the Sardinian language and those dialects of Catalan, spoken in the Balearic Islands and along the coast of Catalonia, that use definitive articles descended from the Latin ipse (“self”) instead of the Latin ille (“that”).

Synonyms

salted

brackish

saline

salt

🧂

bitter

briny

sour

bad tasting

spicy

sweet

alkaline

piquant

saltish

cutting

discriminative

distasteful

fly

✈️

hard

harsh

heartbreaking

hot

🥵

incisive

indecent

ingenious

irritated

keen

knit

marine

mordacious

mordant

more or less

obscene

painful

peaked

peaky

perceptive

perspicacious

piercing

pointed

pungent

quick-witted

ready

savory

sharp

shrill

slick

smart

somewhat

spiky

spoiled

Translations

salé

salado

salato

salzig

zout

🧂

salgado

saumâtre

salat

αλμυρός

tuzlu

gesalzen

salsus

αλατώδης

salin

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈsɒl.ti/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: salti

Cognate with Saterland Frisian: soaltig

Cognate with Western Frisian: sâltich

Cognate with Dutch: zoutig

Cognate with German: salzig

In summary

PIE word
*séh₂ls
From Middle English salti, equivalent to salt + -y.
Compare Saterland Frisian soaltig (“salty”), West Frisian sâltich (“salty”), Dutch zoutig (“salty”), German Low German soltig (“salty”), German salzig (“salty”).
(coarse; irritated, annoyed): Referencing the sharp, 'spicy' flavor of salt.
(indignant): Perhaps implying the person is a crybaby, shedding salty tears, or derived from the preceding.

Sentences

Ukrainian folk word "solontsi" means salty soil .