Where does “kalkkunasalaatti” come from?

kalkkunasalaatti (Finnish) comes from Finnish salaatti, from Swedish sallad, from French salade, from Italian salada, from Vulgar Latin salata, from Latin Salo, from Latin saliō, from Latin sāl — salt.

kalkkunasalaatti (Finnish): turkey salad

Definitions

  1. turkey salad

Ancestry of “kalkkunasalaatti”, step by step

kalkkunasalaatti traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish salaatti

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishsalaattisalad; lettuce; any plant of the genus "Lactuca"
2Swedishsalladsalad; vegetables consisting of leaves, typically...
3Frenchsaladesalad; sallet
4Italiansalada
5Vulgar Latinsalatasalted
6LatinSalothat flows near Bilbilis and then into the Iberus, now the Jalón
7Latinsaliōto leap, jump, bound
8Latinsālsalt
9Proto-Italicsālssalt
10Proto-Indo-European*sḗh₂lsalt

via Finnish kalkkuna

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishkalkkunaturkey, Meleagris gallopavo
2Dutchkalkoenturkey, "Meleagris gallopavo"
3DutchCalcoen
4EnglishCalicut
5Romanian-uțForms masculine diminutives of nouns and...
6Latin-utus
7Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
8Proto-Italic-tus
9Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l
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