Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *soola (compare Estonian sool, Veps sol), ultimately borrowed from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂ls. Words of the same origin occur also in many other Uralic languages, for example Erzya сал (sal), Udmurt сылал (sylal), Komi-Permyak сов (sov).

Pronunciation

• IPA(key): /ˈsuo̯lɑ/, [ˈs̠uo̞̯lɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -uolɑ
  *Hyphenation(key): suo‧la

Noun

suola

1. salt (common table salt, sodium chloride, NaCl)
   Synonyms: ruokasuola (cooking or chemistry), pöytäsuola (cooking), keittosuola (in medicine), natriumkloridi (“sodium chloride”) (chemical formula)
   suolavesi ― saline water
   suolakala ― salted fish
2. (chemistry) salt (chemical compound formed from the reaction of an acid with a base)
3. (cryptography) salt

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