Where does “salu” come from?

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

salu (Esperanto): imperative of sali

Definitions

  1. imperative of sali

Ancestry of “salu”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Esperantosalito salt
2Esperantosalosalt
3Italiansalesalt, sal; plural of sala; third-person singular...
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 →