salt – English noun declension

English noun forms of salt

Noun: salt
Singularsalt
Pluralsalts

Sample Sentences

  • Near-synonyms: table salt, rock salt, road salt
  • Take gode almaunde mylke y-draw wyth wyn, an let hem boyle to-gederys, an caste þer-to Safroun an Salt; […] (Take good almond milk made with wine, and let it boil together, and add thereto Saffron and Salt; […]) [1430, Thomas Austin, editor, Two Fifteenth-century Cookery-books. Harleian ms. 279 (ab. 1430), & Harl. ms. 4016 (ab. 1450), with Extracts from Ashmole ms. 1429, Laud ms. 553, & Douce ms. 55 (Early English Text Society, Original Series; 91), volume 1, London: Routledge; N. Trübner & Co., published 1888, →OCLC, page 11:]
  • Common salt, chloride of sodium, appears to be essential to the life of the higher animals. [1880, Arthur Herbert Church, Food: Some Account of Its Sources, Constituents and Uses, London: Chapman and Hall, page 24:]
  • Nando was pierced with grief, but he didn't allow himself to cry. Tears, he knew, would cost his body salt. Without salt, you die. [2013, Bear Grylls, True Grit: the Epic True Stories of Heroism and Survival That Have Shaped My Life, →ISBN, page 9:]
  • Here’s a grocery list of foods Chestnut has eaten competitively, drawn from his Major League Eating bio: apple pie, asparagus, boysenberry pie, brats, burritos, chicken spiedies (a kind of sandwich), chicken wings, chili, corned beef sandwiches, eggs, fish tacos, funnel cake, grilled cheese sandwiches, gyoza, Krystal hamburgers, horseshoe sandwiches, hot dogs, ice cream, jalapeno poppers, kolaches, pastrami sandwiches, Philly cheesesteaks, pierogi, pizza, pork ribs, pulled pork, poutine, salt potatoes, shrimp, tacos, tamales, turkey and Twinkies. [2015 July 2, Michael Pearson, “6 things to know about hot dog king Joey Chestnut”, in CNN:]
  • Around the door are generally to be seen, laughing and gossiping, clusters of old salts. [1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter:]
  • I never go as a passenger; nor, though I am something of a salt, do I ever go to sea as a Commodore, or a Captain, or a Cook. [1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 1”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:]
  • Though we are justices and doctors and churchmen […] we have some salt of our youth in us. [c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:]
  • Attic salt
  • I out and bought some things; among others, a dozen of silver salts. [1664 September 18 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “September 9th, 1664”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume IV, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1894, →OCLC:]
  • Any politician's statements must be taken with a grain of salt, but his need to be taken with a whole shaker of salt.
  • There was so much salt in that thread about the poor casting decision.

Etymology

1. PIE word
2. *sḗh₂l
3. From Middle English salt, from Old English sealt, from Proto-West Germanic *salt, from Proto-Germanic *saltą, from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l (“salt”). Doublet of sal, salary, and salsa, all ultimately from Latin sāl (“salt”), which it superseded as the general term for "salt".
4. Cognate with Dutch zout, German Salz, Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish salt. See: Middle English Nouns 'salt', Old English Nouns 'sealt', Latin Nouns 'sāl', Dutch Nouns 'zout', German Nouns 'Salz'.

Verbs referencing "salt"

Spanish Nouns sal, German Nouns Salz, Ancient Greek Nouns ἅλς, Belarusan Nouns соль, Russian Nouns соль, Latvian Nouns sāls, Russian Nouns соус, English Nouns saltchuck, Ukrainian Nouns сіль.