salten

See also: sâlten

English

Etymology 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”).

Adjective

salten (comparative more salten, superlative most salten)

1. (rare) salted; salty

   a salten marsh

   • 1984, Charles S. Peterson, Utah: A History - Page 14:

     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.

   • 1991, Lance Williams, Tillman S. Boxell, Arnold Sundgaard, Promised Valley: The Novel - Page 196:

     "Discovered by my old friend Jedediah Smith. One beaver season he come down out of the mountains and saw this marsh land with reeds twenty feet high. ... But o' course it was a great big salten lake. Captain Stansbury went all around it.

   • 2011, G. Maroulis, T. Bancewicz, B. Champagne, Atomic and Molecular Nonlinear Optics:

     The pseudo-centrosymmetric electronic environment of the [Fe^III(salten)] core and the absence of strong donor acceptor character on the salten fragment leads to the suggestion (eventually verified by ZINDO) that the metal center is not involved in the dominant charge transfer process, which is located on the DEAS and mepepy moieties.

Etymology 2

From salt +‎ -en.

Verb

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

1. (transitive, intransitive) To make or become salty or salted
   • 1999, Journal of Physical Oceanography, volume 29, page 2278:

     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.

   • 2014, Ernest R. Pope, Munich Playground:

     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.

Anagrams

• Altens, Antles, Slaten, latens, slaten, tensal

Asturian

Verb

salten

1. third-person plural present indicative of saltar
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of saltar

Catalan

Verb

salten

1. third-person plural present indicative of saltar

East Central German

Etymology

From Middle High German selten, selden, from Old High German seltan, from Proto-Germanic *seldanē. Compare German selten.

Adverb

salten

1. (Erzgebirgisch) seldom, rarely

   Dr. Helm soß of dr Ufnbank, raachet sei Pfeifel un war zefrieden wie salten in senn Laabn.

   Dr. Helm sat on the stove bench, smoked his pipe and was happier as seldom in his life.

Further reading

• Manfred Blechschmidt, Behüt eich fei dos Licht Ein Weihnachtsbuch des Erzgebirges P. 134

Galician

Verb

salten

1. inflection of saltar:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative

Middle English

Alternative forms

• salte, sulte

Etymology

From Old English sealtan, from Proto-Germanic *saltaną, from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂l-; equivalent to salt +‎ -en (infinitival suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsaltən/

Verb

salten

1. To salt food; to sprinkle with salt for flavour.
2. To use salt to aid the preservation or keeping of food.
3. (rare) To apply salt to the body for medicinal reasons.
4. (rare) To apply salt to open wounds as a method of torture.

Conjugation

Conjugation of salten (weak in -ed/-te or strong class 7)

infinitive	(to) salten, salte
	present tense	past tense
1st-person singular	salte	salted, salte, selt
2nd-person singular	saltest	saltedest, saltest, selte, selt
3rd-person singular	salteth	salted, salte, selt
subjunctive singular	salte	salted1, salte1, selte1
imperative singular		—
plural2	salten, salte	salteden, saltede, salten, salte, selten, selte
imperative plural	salteth, salte	—
participles	saltynge, saltende	(y)salted, (y)salt, (y)selte

¹Replaced by the indicative in later Middle English.
²Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

Descendants

• English: salt
• Scots: saut

References

• “salten, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-26.

Spanish

Verb

salten

1. inflection of saltar:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative