salten

动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To make or become salty or salted ambitransitive
    — 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.
形容词 adj.
  1. salted; salty rare
    — a salten marsh

词形变化

more salten comparative most salten superlative saltens present,singular,third-person saltening participle,present saltened participle,past saltened past

词源

词源 1
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”).
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *sel-der.
Proto-Italic *saljō
Latin saliō
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Italic *-tus
Latin -tus
Latin saltusbor.
English salt
English -en
English salten
From salt + -en (“to make like”).
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