different between sale vs salm

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /se?l/
• Rhymes: -e?l
• Homophone: sail

Etymology 1

From Middle English sale, sal, from Old English sæl (“room, hall, castle”), from Proto-Germanic *sal? (“house, hall”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“home, dwelling, village”). Cognate with West Frisian seal, Dutch zaal, German Saal, Swedish sal, Icelandic salur, Lithuanian sala (“village”). Related also to salon, saloon.

Noun

sale (plural sales)

1. (obsolete) A hall.

Etymology 2

From Middle English sale, from Old English sala (“act of selling, sale”), from Old Norse sala (“sale”), from Proto-Germanic *sal? (“delivery”), from Proto-Indo-European *selh?- (“to grab”).

Noun

sale (plural sales)

1. An exchange of goods or services for currency or credit.

3. (Short for discount sale) The sale of goods at reduced prices.

4. The act of putting up for auction to the highest bidder.

Troponyms

• (selling of goods at reduced prices): cut-rate sale, sales event
• (act of putting up for auction to the highest bidder): auction, public sale

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• purchase

Anagrams

• ASLE, ELAS, Elsa, LAEs, LEAs, SEAL, Seal, Sela, aels, ales, lase, leas, seal, sela

Afrikaans

Noun

sale

1. plural of saal (hall)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sal/
• Homophone: salle

Etymology 1

From Middle French sale, from Old French sale (“dull, dirty”), from Frankish *salo (“dull, dirty grey”), from Proto-Germanic *salwaz (“dusky, dark, muddy”), from Proto-Indo-European *salw-, *sal- (“dirt, dirty”). Cognate with Old High German salo (“dull, dirty grey”), Old English salu (“dark, dusky”), Old Norse s?lr (“yellowish”). More at sallow.

Adjective

sale (plural sales)

1. dirty

   Synonyms: crasseux, malpropre

   Hyponyms: dégoûtant, répugnant, sali, sordide, souillé, terni

   Antonyms: net, propre

2. vile, despicable

   Synonyms: méprisable, vil

   Hyponyms: dégoûtant, répugnant, sordide

Derived terms

Related terms

See also

Etymology 2

From saler

Verb

sale

1. first-person singular present indicative of saler
2. third-person singular present indicative of saler
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of saler
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of saler
5. second-person singular imperative of saler

Further reading

• “sale” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
• “sale” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sa.le/
• Rhymes: -ale
• Hyphenation: sà?le

Etymology 1

From Latin salem, accusative of s?l, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *séh?ls.

Noun

sale m (plural sali)

1. salt, sal

Derived terms

Related terms

References

• sale in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

sale f pl

1. plural of sala

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

sale

1. third-person singular present indicative of salire

Anagrams

• elsa, lesa

Latin

Noun

sale

1. ablative singular of s?l

References

• sale in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sale in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• sale in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[1]
• sale in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Norman

Etymology

From Old French sale (“dull, dirty”), from a Germanic source, from Proto-Germanic *salwaz (“dusky, dark, muddy”), from Proto-Indo-European *salw-, *sal- (“dirt, dirty”).

Adjective

sale m or f

1. (Jersey, Guernsey) dirty

Derived terms

• sale maladie (“venereal disease”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• sadle

Etymology

From Old Norse s?ðla, from Proto-Germanic *sadul?n?.

Verb

sale (present tense saler, past tense salte or salet, past participle salt or salet, present participle salende, imperative sal)

1. (transitive) to saddle

References

• “sale” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Anagrams

• Asle, Elsa, ales

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• sala (a infinitive)

Etymology

From Old Norse s?ðla, from Proto-Germanic *sadul?n?.

Verb

sale (present tense salar, past tense sala, past participle sala, passive infinitive salast, present participle salande, imperative sal)

1. (transitive) to saddle

References

• “sale” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• Asle, elas, Elsa, lase, lesa

Old French

Etymology

From Frankish *sali (“dwelling, house, entrance hall”)

Noun

sale f (oblique plural sales, nominative singular sale, nominative plural sales)

1. room (subsection of a building)
   • circa 1170, Chrétien de Troyes, Érec et Énide:

     […] que la soe amie
     Est la plus bele de la sale[.]

     - […] The his wife

     Is the most beautiful in the room

Descendants

• French : salle
• Norman: salle

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?sa.le]

Pronoun

sale

1. feminine plural of s?u
2. neuter plural of s?u

Spanish

Etymology

From salir. For the interjection, sale is part of a former rhyming phrase, sale y vale; see valer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sale/, [?sa.le]

Interjection

sale

1. (Mexico) ok

   Synonyms: (Argentina) dale, vale

Derived terms

Verb

sale

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of salir.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of salir.

Venetian

Alternative forms

• sal

Etymology

From Latin sal, salem.

Noun

sale f

1. salt (sodium chloride, non-chemical usage)

sale m (plural sali)

1. (chemistry) salt

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Middle Low German sä?lich, older form of sêlich, from Old Saxon s?lig, from Proto-West Germanic *s?l?g.

Adjective

sale

1. (Christianity) Blessed, saved.

English

Noun

salm (plural salms)

1. Obsolete form of psalm.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Piers Plowman to this entry?)

Anagrams

• AMLs, AMSL, LAMs, Lams, MASL, SAML, SLAM, alms, lams, mals, masl, slam

Cornish

Pronunciation

• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key): [salm]
• (Revived Late Cornish) IPA^(key): [s?lm]

Noun

salm m

1. A psalm

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish salm, from Latin psalmus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (psalmós).

Pronunciation

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /?s??l???m?/
• (Connacht, Ulster) IPA^(key): /?s?al???m?/

Noun

salm m (genitive singular sailm, nominative plural sailm)

1. psalm

Declension

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “salm”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• "salm" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “salm” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “salm” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /salm/

Noun

salm m

1. psalm

Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sal??am/

Noun

salm f (genitive singular sailm, plural sailm)

1. psalm

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [salm]

Noun

salm (nominative plural salms)

1. (male or female) salmon (fish)

Declension

Derived terms

See also

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /salm/

Noun

salm f (plural salmau, not mutable)

1. A psalm

West Frisian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

salm c (plural salmen, diminutive salmke)

1. salmon

Further reading

• “salm”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011