Where does “salami” come from?

salami (Cornish) comes from English salami, from Italian salami, from Italian salame, from Italian sale, from Latin sāl, from Proto-Italic sāls, from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l — salt.

salami (Cornish): salami

Definitions

  1. salami

Ancestry of “salami”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishsalamiA large cured meat sausage of Italian origin,...
2Italiansalamiplural of salame
3Italiansalamesalami
4Italiansalesalt, sal; plural of sala; third-person singular...
5Latinsālsalt
6Proto-Italicsālssalt
7Proto-Indo-European*sḗh₂lsalt
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l →Every word from Proto-Italic sāls →Every word from Latin sāl →
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