Where does “corn salad” come from?
corn salad (English) 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.
corn salad (English): Any of various types of salad made using corn;...
Definitions
- Any of various types of salad made using corn;...
Ancestry of “corn salad”, step by step
corn salad traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English salad
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | salad | A food made primarily of a mixture of raw or cold... |
| 2 | Middle English | salade | salad; An ingredient in a salad |
| 3 | Old French | salade | — |
| 4 | Italian | salada | — |
| 5 | Vulgar Latin | salata | salted |
| 6 | Latin | Salo | that flows near Bilbilis and then into the Iberus, now the Jalón |
| 7 | Latin | saliō | to leap, jump, bound |
| 8 | Latin | sāl | salt |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | sāls | salt |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | *sḗh₂l | salt |
via English corn
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | corn | The main cereal plant grown for its grain in a... |
| 2 | Middle English | corn | Any plant that bears grain, especially wheat; a... |
| 3 | Old English | corn | corn, a grain or seed; a cornlike pimple, a corn... |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | korn | corn, grain, cereal |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | kurną | corn, grain, cereal |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵr̥h₂nóm | grain |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵr̥h₂nós | matured, grown old |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵerh₂- | to grow old, to mature |