Where does “ŝaltilo” come from?

ŝaltilo (Esperanto) comes from Esperanto ŝalti, from Latin saltō, from Latin saliō, from Latin sāl, from Proto-Italic sāls, from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l — salt.

ŝaltilo (Esperanto): switch

Definitions

  1. switch

Ancestry of “ŝaltilo”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Esperantoŝaltito switch; to switch on
2Latinsaltōto dance, jump
3Latinsaliōto leap, jump, bound
4Latinsālsalt
5Proto-Italicsālssalt
6Proto-Indo-European*sḗh₂lsalt

Words derived from “ŝaltilo”

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