Where does “salami” come from?

Salami comes from Italian salami, plural of salame, derived from Latin sal meaning salt, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European sel-.

salami (English): A large cured meat sausage of Italian origin,...

Definitions

  1. A large cured meat sausage of Italian origin,...

Ancestry of “salami”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italiansalamiplural of salame
2Italiansalamesalami
3Italiansalesalt, sal; plural of sala; third-person singular...
4Latinsālsalt
5Proto-Italicsālssalt
6Proto-Indo-European*sḗh₂lsalt

Words derived from “salami”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l →Every word from Proto-Italic sāls →Every word from Latin sāl →