Where does “ဆလတ်” come from?

ဆလတ် (Burmese) comes from English salad, from Middle English salade, from Old French salade, from Italian salada, from Vulgar Latin salata, from Latin Salo, from Latin saliō, from Latin sāl — salt.

ဆလတ် (Burmese): lettuce

Definitions

  1. lettuce

Ancestry of “ဆလတ်”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishsaladA food made primarily of a mixture of raw or cold...
2Middle Englishsaladesalad; An ingredient in a salad
3Old Frenchsalade
4Italiansalada
5Vulgar Latinsalatasalted
6LatinSalothat flows near Bilbilis and then into the Iberus, now the Jalón
7Latinsaliōto leap, jump, bound
8Latinsālsalt
9Proto-Italicsālssalt
10Proto-Indo-European*sḗh₂lsalt
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂lEvery word from Proto-Italic sālsEvery word from Latin sāl