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SALVE
Definition of SALVE
noun
An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects.
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Where it comes from
From Middle English salve, from Old English sealf, from Proto-West Germanic *salbu, from Proto-Germanic *salbō, from Proto-Indo-European *solp-éh₂, from *selp- (“salve, ointment”). Cognate with Middle Low German salve (Danish salve, Dutch zalf), Old High German salba (German Salbe), Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌻𐌱𐍉𐌽𐍃 (salbōns), Albanian gjalpë (“butter”), Sanskrit सर्पिस् (sarpís), Ancient Greek ἔλπος (élpos).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
4 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
2nd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
14.2%
of traced words share this origin (11,506)
How it is built
Same root, SALVE · 1 relative in the game
Its etymology also names Ancient Greek, Danish, Dutch, Middle Low German, Sanskrit.
Every Proto-Indo-European word → · The Word DNA of OUTLIER →
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SALVE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 60 boards so far. 163 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 22, 11 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 161, 28 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 22, 11 June 2026.
Built from these letters
SALVE starts with S and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AELSV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
7 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start SALVE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 22
Could you have found SALVE?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 22 - and most players walked straight past it.
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