Where does “salo” come from?

salo (Esperanto) comes from Italian sale, from Latin sāl, from Proto-Italic sāls, from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l — salt.

salo (Esperanto): salt

Definitions

  1. salt

Ancestry of “salo”, step by step

salo traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Italian sale

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italiansalesalt, sal; plural of sala; third-person singular...
2Latinsālsalt
3Proto-Italicsālssalt
4Proto-Indo-European*sḗh₂lsalt

via Persian شال

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Persianشالshawl; scarf
2Hindiदुशालाshawl
3Sanskritद्विशाट

Words derived from “salo

Every word from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂lEvery word from Proto-Italic sālsEvery word from Latin sāl