salta

Swedish

verb-reg

Definitions

to salt (food or roads)
to request much more payment than anticipated or deemed reasonable for a given, performed, piece of work

Etymology

Derived from Old Norse salta derived from Proto-Germanic *saltaną.

Origin

Proto-Germanic

*saltaną

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Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms

*seh₂l- Proto-Indo-European
*saltaną Proto-Germanic
sopa Swedish
sopsaltare Swedish
sealtan Old English
salta Old Norse
salzan Old High German
*saltan Old Dutch