| Word form | shio |
| Original script | 塩 (salt); 潮、汐 (tide) |
| LWT meaning(s) | |
| Word meaning | salt; tide (the two meaning are differentiated in writing). For „tide“, there is also the phrase shio no kanman , which includes the SJ term kanman (日葡辞書 1603) |
| Comments on word | form in Old Japanese sipo |
| Analyzability | unanalyzable |
| Age | Old Japanese [21] (710–794) |
| Lexical stratum | wago |
| Year | 古事記 (712) |
| Register | General |