Hallstatt

Proper noun

 * 1) A village in Salzkammergut, Austria, known historically for the production of salt.
 * 2) The  of the Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age.

Etymology
The second element is.

Traditionally the first element is taken to be a borrowing from for ‘salt’, such as 🇨🇬 or 🇨🇬; see 🇨🇬.

David Stifter rejects the traditional etymology because of several problems, among them:


 * 1) the element hall- exists only in names of places settled by Germanic speakers (and nowhere else in the Celtic-speaking areas),
 * 2) the *s > *h sound change is not attested in Continental Celtic,
 * 3) derivation from the ‘salt’ word would have given a non-geminated final l.

He instead derives it from, from , referring to encrusted salt forming during the simmering of brine.