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The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

Appendix I

Indo-European Roots

ENTRY:	sal-
DEFINITION:	Salt. 1. Extended form sald-. a. Suffixed form sald-o-. salt, from Old English sealt, salt, from Germanic saltam; b. (i)* souse¹, from Old French sous, pickled meat; (ii) silt, from Middle English cylte, fine sand, from a source probably akin to Danish and Norwegian sylt, salt marsh. Both (i) and (ii) from Germanic zero-grade suffixed extended form sult-j; c. salsa, sauce, sausage, from Latin sallere* (past participle salsus < sald-to-), to salt. 2. sal, salad, salami, salary, sali-, saline; salmagundi, saltcellar, saltpeter, from Latin sl (genitive salis), salt. 3. halo-, from Greek hals* (stem hal-), salt, sea. (Pokorny 1. sal- 878.)


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