Last name origins & meanings:
- German: topographic name from Middle High German sal
‘manor’, ‘hall’ (or from a homonym meaning ‘moist dirt’) + velt
‘field’.
- German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name from
places so called in Thuringia and East Prussia.
- Jewish
(Ashkenazic): compound ornamental name from Sal (a short form
of Salomon) + German Feld ‘field’, ‘pasture’.
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