cordwainer

\Cord"wain*er\ (-?r), n. [OE. cordwaner, cordiner, fr. OF. cordoanier, cordouanier, F. cordonnier.] A worker in cordwain, or cordovan leather; a shoemaker. [Archaic.]

the Old Persian/Old Iranian word for shekel appears in Elamite texts, where it
is mostly spelled pan-su-(uk)-qa.  Some people (among whom W. Hinz, Altiranisches Sprachgut
der Nebenueberlieferungen, 1975, p.178) think the Iranian word behind the
Elamite spellings should be *pancuka-, which means 'five (units)

see the caf' hamsa protosinaitic

lmlK swKh

lmlk Hbrn

 *pathuka-, 'ram'

Camden's Britannia published in 1607 the word "wiccj = salt pittes The salt makers or "wallers" derived from the anglo saxon "waellere" a boiler, [german = wallen -to boil. sal.tern \'so.l-t*rn\ n [OE sealtern, fr. sealt salt + rn house; akin to ON]rann house : a place where salt is made by boiling or evaporation Salt was sold by the Mittae at Droitwich and then later by the bushel which is not recorded in England before 1086. The Mittae at Droitwich was equivalent to four bushels or two hundredweight or a horseload (as recorded by the Rev.Hale), whereas in Cheshire a horse could carry 6 bushels because the weight of each bushel was less than a Droitwich bushel.The wiches...(Droitwich...etc UK etc) were producing salt from the salt springs for the Romans and continued to do so, up to the begining of this century

Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

Lord

This word for master derives from the Old English hláford or literally bread (loaf)-ward. Originally, it is a reference to the head of a household; servants in the house would be entitled to be fed by the master. The general sense of master, as opposed to the specific sense of a provider of bread, is well established by c. 950.

Heathen

This word for non-Christian or pagan is common in all the Germanic languages. It appears in Old English as hâþen in the year 826. It clearly arose after Christianity, but had to be quite early for it to appear in all the Germanic tongues, sometime in the 4th century or earlier. Most words of this age have unclear etymologies, but this is not the case with heathen.

It is believed to have originated in Gothic and spread to the other Germanic tribes. In the 4th century, Ulfilas, bishop of the Goths, translated the Bible into Gothic. In Mark 7:26, which reads "Now the woman was a Greek , a Syrophoenician by birth...," Ulfilas used the word haiþnô in place of Greek, or as it appears in the Vulgate gentilis, or gentile. Haiþnô literally means dweller on the heath.

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salt @latin

concha -ae f. [a sea-shell]; hence [a shell-fish , esp. mussel or pearl-oyster or the fish yielding purple dye]; poet., [a pearl or purple dye]. Transf., [a vessel like a shell, e.g. a saltcellar or trumpet].

sal salis m. [salt; brine , sea water]; fig., sing. and pl. [wit].

salarius -a -um [of salt]; n. as subst. [salt money , an allowance, pay]

salillum -i n. [a little saltcellar].

salinae -arum f. pl. [salt-works , brine-pit].

salinum -i n. [a saltcellar].

salio salire salui saltum [to spring , leap, bound]; f. pl. of partic. as subst. salientes -ium, [fountains].

salsamentum -i n. [fish-pickle , brine; salted or pickled fish].

salsura -ae f. [salting , pickling].

salsus -a -um [salted , salty]; hence [sharp, biting, witty]; adv. salse.

sargus -i m. [a salt-water fish , the sargue].

scarus -i m. [a salt-water fish , perhaps parrot-fish].

scorpio -onis and scorpius (-os) -i m. [a scorpion]; milit. [an engine for throwing missiles; a salt-water fish , perhaps the sculpin].

tyrotarichos -i m. [a dish of cheese and salt-fish].

  electrolyte (ĭlĕk'trəlīt') , electrical conductor in which current is carried by ions rather than by free electrons (as in a metal). Electrolytes include water solutions of acids, bases, or salts; certain pure liquids; and molten salts. Gases may act as electrolytes under conditions of high temperature or low pressure. All inorganic acids, bases, and salts are electrolytes. Electrolytic substances are classified as strong or weak according to how readily they dissociate into conducting ions. Potassium chloride and sodium hydroxide are strong electrolytes; they are almost completely dissociated when in solution or fused. Acetic acid is a weak electrolyte. An electrolyte is decomposed when a current passes through it

Webster Definition for "SALT" Cross references:
1.common salt 1. salt \'so.lt\ n [ME, fr. OE sealt; akin to OHG salz salt, L sal, Gk halsX salt, sea 1a: a crystalline compound NaCl that is the chloride of sodium, abundant in nature, and used esp. for seasoning or preserving food or in industry 1b: a substance (as sal soda) resembling common salt in some property pl 1c1: a mineral or saline mixture (as Epsom salts) used as an aperient or cathartic 1c2: SMELLING SALTS 1d: any of numerous compounds formed by replacement of part or all of the acid hydrogen of an acid by a metal or radical acting like a metal 2a: an element that gives savor, piquancy, or zest : FLAVOR 2b: sharpness of wit : PUNGENCY 2c: EARTHINESS 2d: RESERVE, SKEPTICISM - often used in the phrase with a grain of salt 2e: a scattered elite - usu. used in the phrase salt of the earth 3: SAILOR

2. salt vt 1a: to sprinkle, rub, impregnate, or season with salt 1b: to preserve (food) with salt or in brine 2: to give flavor or piquancy to 3: to enrich (as a mine) artificially by secretly placing valuable mineral in some of the working places 4: to supply (as an animal) with salt 5: to sprinkle as if with salt {~ing clouds with silver iodide}

3. salt aj 1a: SALINE, SALTY 1b: being or inducing one of the four basic taste sensations 2: cured or seasoned with salt : SALTED 3: overflowed with salt water 4: SHARP, PUNGENT - salt.ness n

4. salt aj [by shortening & alter. fr. assaut, fr. ME a sawt, fr. MF a saut], lit., on the jump : LUSTFUL, LASCIVIOUS

 

collected comment: But W. Halen is from earlier Brit. *Salos which is cognate with L. sal  "salt", Cornish sal, zal; and OIr. salann. In Welsh, the intial s>h occured in the mid to late sixth century(and something similar happened in Greek in antiquity). Thus, W. Halen is not very far removed from G. salz. I'm unconvinced by the proposed etymology for Hallstatt, which looks like a typical Germanic formation. What are the early forms?The temptation to equate the word "salty" with the words "healthy" and "holy" should be resisted (they have quite different origins).Henry Gough-Cooper.visit the Scottish Place-Name Society website http://www.st-and.ac.uk/

"There seems to be a link between soldier, soldaat and soldij," - "Could it be that sol- has its origin in Greek?" Close. It was Latin, from solidus, solid. This, it seems, was used by Romans as a shortened form of nummus solidus, or solid coin, which found its way into Old French as soulde, pay, and the coin known as a sou. Since the essence of being a mercenary soldier was that one was paid for one's trouble (as opposed to being conscripted), anyone who thus served was known as a soudier, which begat the modern French soldat and the English soldier. The word solder also comes from solidus: it originally meant to make solid. Works by authors like Jean de Montreuil, Jean Juvenal des Ursins, etc are famous for the transmission adevelopment of the concept of the Salic Law, one of the most misunderstood and enduring of all medieval myths .