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SALIVA
Definition of SALIVA
noun
A clear, slightly alkaline liquid secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands and mucous glands, consisting of water, mucin, protein, and enzymes. It moistens the mouth, lubricates ingested food, and begins the breakdown of starches.
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Where it comes from
A learned borrowing from Latin salīva (“spittle”), replacing or merging with Middle English salive, salve (“saliva”), from the same Latin source. Further origin uncertain. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *salw-, *sal- (“dirt, dirty”), cognate with Old English salu (“dark, dusky”). More at sallow. Displaced Middle English slaver, slavere ("saliva"; whence Modern English slaver); and Middle English spyttle, spetel, spatel, spotel ("saliva"; whence Modern English spittle, spettle, spattle).
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Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
6th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
4.2%
of traced words share this origin (1,217)
branch · 22.3% of traced words
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SALIVA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 26 boards so far. 52 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 5, 26 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 132, 29 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 15 days.
First found by a player on Day 5, 26 May 2026.
Built from these letters
SALIVA starts with S and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AAILSV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start SALIVA
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 5
Could you have found SALIVA?
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