Where does “salaried” come from?

Salaried derives from Middle English -ed added to salary, which comes from Old English -od, from Proto-Germanic -ōdaz, ultimately from Latin salarium, a compound of sal (salt) and -arius (agent suffix), with sal tracing to Proto-Indo-European seh₂l-.

salaried (English): Paid a salary, as opposed to being an hourly...

Definitions

  1. Paid a salary, as opposed to being an hourly...

Ancestry of “salaried”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishsalaryA fixed amount of money paid to a worker, usually...
2Middle Englishsalarie—
3Anglo-NormansalarieAlternative form of salaire
4Old Frenchsalairesalary
5Latinsalāriuma salary, stipend, allowance, pension
6Latinsālsalt
7Proto-Italicsālssalt
8Proto-Indo-European*sḗh₂lsalt

Words derived from “salaried”

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