Where does “salame” come from?

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

Ancestry of “salame”, step by step

salame traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Italian salame

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italiansalamesalami
2Italiansalesalt, sal; plural of sala; third-person singular...
3Latinsālsalt
4Proto-Italicsālssalt
5Proto-Indo-European*sḗh₂lsalt

via English Salama

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishSalama—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l →Every word from Proto-Italic sāls →Every word from Latin sāl →