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)

1. 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.