Where does “sally” come from?

Sally comes from French saillir, from Latin salīre meaning "to jump or leap," with the noun formation following Latin -ia and adjectival -īvus suffixes ultimately descended from Proto-Indo-European -kos.

sally (English): A willow; Any tree that looks like a willow; An...

Definitions

  1. A willow; Any tree that looks like a willow; An...

Ancestry of “sally”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishsaly
2Finnish-uForms nouns from verbs. Most common with "e"- and...
3Proto-Finnic-uForms nouns from adjectives, nouns

Words derived from “sally

Every word from Proto-Finnic -u