English: occupational name for an extractor or seller of salt
(a precious commodity in medieval times), from Middle English
salt ‘salt’ + the agent suffix -er.English:
occupational name for a player on the psaltery, a string instrument,
Middle English, Old French saltere ‘psaltery’. (The Middle
English word is derived from Latin psalterium, Greek
psalterion, from psallein ‘to sound’).North
German form of Salzer.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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