Where does “aardappelsalade” come from?

aardappelsalade (Dutch) comes from Dutch salade, from Middle Dutch salade, from Middle French salade, from Old French salade, from Italian salada, from Vulgar Latin salata, from Latin Salo, from Latin saliō — salt.

aardappelsalade (Dutch): potato salad

Definitions

  1. potato salad

Ancestry of “aardappelsalade”, step by step

aardappelsalade traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Dutch salade

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Dutchsaladesalad; lettuce; A sallet, a salade
2Middle Dutchsalade
3Middle Frenchsalade
4Old Frenchsalade
5Italiansalada
6Vulgar Latinsalatasalted
7LatinSalothat flows near Bilbilis and then into the Iberus, now the Jalón
8Latinsaliōto leap, jump, bound
9Latinsālsalt
10Proto-Italicsālssalt
11Proto-Indo-European*sḗh₂lsalt

via Dutch aardappel

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Dutchaardappelpotato
2Dutchappelapple; appeal
3Middle Dutchappelapple
4Old Dutchappelapple
5Proto-West Germanicappluapple, fruit
6Proto-Germanicaplazapple, fruit
7Proto-Indo-Europeanh₂ébōlapple
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂lEvery word from Proto-Italic sālsEvery word from Latin sāl