Where does “salon” come from?

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

salon (Esperanto): accusative singular of salo

Definitions

  1. accusative singular of salo

Ancestry of “salon”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Esperantosalosalt
2Italiansalesalt, sal; plural of sala; third-person singular...
3Latinsālsalt
4Proto-Italicsālssalt
5Proto-Indo-European*sḗh₂lsalt
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l →Every word from Proto-Italic sāls →Every word from Latin sāl →