Where does “sallet” come from?

sallet (English) comes from Middle French salade, from Old French salade, from Italian salada, from Vulgar Latin salata, from Latin Salo, from Latin saliō, from Latin sāl, from Proto-Italic sāls — salt.

sallet (English): A type of light spherical helmet; Archaic form of...

Definitions

  1. A type of light spherical helmet; Archaic form of...

Ancestry of “sallet”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Frenchsalade—
2Old Frenchsalade—
3Italiansalada—
4Vulgar Latinsalatasalted
5LatinSalothat flows near Bilbilis and then into the Iberus, now the Jalón
6Latinsaliōto leap, jump, bound
7Latinsālsalt
8Proto-Italicsālssalt
9Proto-Indo-European*sḗh₂lsalt
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l →Every word from Proto-Italic sāls →Every word from Latin sāl →