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salten

salten

English

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 [FeIII(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.

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 form of saltar

Spanish

Verb

salten

  1. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes?) present subjunctive form of saltar.
  2. (used formally in Spain) Second-person plural (ustedes) imperative form of saltar.
  3. (used formally in Spain) Second-person plural present subjunctive form of saltar.

Etymology

From Middle English salten, from Old English sealten, from Proto-Germanic *saltanaz ‎(“salted”), past participle of *saltaną ‎(“to salt”), equivalent to salt +‎ -en. Cognate with Saterland Frisian soalten ‎(“salted; salty”), German Low German solten ‎(“salted”), Dutch gezouten ‎(“salted”), German gesalzen ‎(“salted”).

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