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salten

salten adjective: salted; salty.

Adjective

salten (comparative more salten, superlative most salten)

  1. (rare) salted; salty
    • a salten marsh
    • Rumored as early as 1688, when Baron Lahontan told of a salten sea 300 leagues in circumference, and reported but unseen by Escalante, the Great Salt Lake became the region's chief distinguishing feature.1984, Charles S. Peterson, Utah: A History - Page 14

Verb

salten (third-person singular simple present saltens, present participle saltening, simple past and past participle saltened)

  1. (ambitransitive) To make or become salty or salted
    • It might, however, give more credit to the thermohaline structure in the Atlantic: the large influx of thermocline water saltens the surface layer, while a fresh subsurface layer might be generated by the salt export at intermediate depths.1999, Journal of Physical Oceanography, volume 29, page 2278
    • As Hitler raged on for one hour and thirteen minutes, an ever-increasing number of women and girls burst into tears, some of which saltened the beer mugs that had been lubricating their laughter a few minutes ago, before Festival officials turned on the loudspeakers.2014, Ernest R. Pope, Munich Playground

Forms of salten

Adjective
comparativemore salten
superlativemost salten
Verb
third-person singular presentsaltens
present participlesaltening
past participlesaltened
pastsaltened

Origin of salten

From Middle English salten, from Old English sealten, from Proto-West Germanic *saltan, from Proto-Germanic *saltanaz (“salted”), past participle of *saltaną (“to salt”), equivalent to salt + -en. Cognate with Saterland Frisian soalten (“salted; salty”), Dutch gezouten (“salted”), German Low German solten (“salted”), German gesalzen (“salted”).

From salt + -en (“to make like”).

Questions about salten

What does salten mean?
Salten means salted; salty.
What part of speech is salten?
Salten can be an adjective or a verb.

Words near salten in the dictionary

  1. salted the earth
  2. salted the mine
  3. salted up
  4. saltee
  5. saltees
  6. salten
  7. saltened
  8. saltening
  9. saltens
  10. salter
  11. Salter-Harris fracture

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