Where does “salajrotago” come from?

salajrotago (Esperanto) comes from Esperanto salajro, from French salaire, from Italian salario, from Latin salārium, from Latin sāl, from Proto-Italic sāls, from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l — salt.

salajrotago (Esperanto): payday

Definitions

  1. payday

Ancestry of “salajrotago”, step by step

salajrotago traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Esperanto salajro

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Esperantosalajrosalary, payment
2Frenchsalairesalary, wage
3Italiansalariopay, wages, salary; first-person singular present...
4Latinsalāriuma salary, stipend, allowance, pension
5Latinsālsalt
6Proto-Italicsālssalt
7Proto-Indo-European*sḗh₂lsalt

via Esperanto tago

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Esperantotagoday
2Germantagsingular imperative of tagen
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l →Every word from Proto-Italic sāls →Every word from Latin sāl →