Where does “salaatti” come from?

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

salaatti (Finnish): salad; lettuce; any plant of the genus "Lactuca"

Definitions

  1. salad; lettuce; any plant of the genus "Lactuca"

Ancestry of “salaatti”, step by step

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

Words derived from “salaatti

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