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
- A willow; Any tree that looks like a willow; An...
Ancestry of “sally”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Middle English | saly | — |
| 2 | Finnish | -u | Forms nouns from verbs. Most common with "e"- and... |
| 3 | Proto-Finnic | -u | — |
Words derived from “sally”