Where does “saltego” come from?

saltego (Esperanto) comes from Esperanto salto, from Latin saltus, from Latin saliō, from Latin sāl, from Proto-Italic sāls, from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l — salt.

saltego (Esperanto): Augmentative of salto; bound, leap

Definitions

  1. Augmentative of salto; bound, leap

Ancestry of “saltego”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Esperantosaltojump
2LatinsaltusA leap, jump; a leaping; A forest or mountain...
3Latinsaliōto leap, jump, bound
4Latinsālsalt
5Proto-Italicsālssalt
6Proto-Indo-European*sḗh₂lsalt
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l →Every word from Proto-Italic sāls →Every word from Latin sāl →