salow
Middle English
Alternative forms
- salew, salgh, salghe, salȝe, sallow, salowe, salu, saluh, salwe, salwh, salwhe, saly, salyh
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/, /ˈsaliu̯/, /salx/
Noun
salow (plural salowes)
- A willow (tree of the genus Salix)
- Synonym: wylow
Descendants
- English: sallow, sally, selly
- Scots: sauch
References
- “salou(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.