salow
Middle English
Alternative forms
- salew, salgh, sallow, salowe, salu, saluh, salwe, salwh, saly, salyh
- salch, sauch, sawch (Early Scots); salȝe (Staffordshire); salghe (Catholicon Anglicum); salwhe (Promptorium Parvulorum)
Etymology
Inherited from Old English sealh, from Proto-West Germanic *salh, from Proto-Germanic *salhaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂lk-, *sh₂lik-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsalɔu̯/, /ˈsaluː/, /salx/
- IPA(key): /ˈsaliu̯/ (especially Southern, South Midland)
Noun
salow (plural salowes)
Descendants
References
- “salou(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.