salve
Danish
/salvə/
noun
Definitions
- ointment (a thick viscous preparation for application to the skin, often containing medication)
Etymology
Derived from Middle Low German salve derived from Old Saxon salva derived from Proto-Germanic *salbō (settler, assuager, salve, ointment) derived from Proto-Indo-European *selp- (butter, fat, grease).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*selp-
Gloss
butter, fat, grease
Concept
Semantic Field
Food and drink
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
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Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- eyesalve English
- salve English
- salvelike English
- salver English
- salve Latin
- ἔλπος Ancient Greek
- *selp- Proto-Indo-European
- *solp-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European
- salve Norwegian Bokmål
- Gonçalvo Portuguese
- *salbō Proto-Germanic
- *salbōną Proto-Germanic
- salva Swedish
- salve Norwegian Nynorsk
- sealf Old English
- salve Middle English
- salvi Icelandic
- salba Old High German
- salva Faroese
- sálva Faroese
- *salbu gmw-pro
- salva Old Dutch
- salve Middle Low German
- salva Old Saxon
- clp Middle Persian