English

hypersaline

From hyper- + saline.

A compound of hyper- + saline

Proto-Indo-European *úp

Proto-Indo-European *upér ‘over, above’

Proto-Hellenic *hupér

Ancient Greek ὑπέρ ‘over’

Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l ‘salt’

Proto-Italic *sāls ‘salt’

Latin sal ‘salt’

Medieval Latin salīna ‘salt pan, salt works’

Middle English salyne

Today it means

adj Having an abnormally high salinity

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / hypersaline