Where does “salade” come from?

salade (French) comes from Italian salada, from Vulgar Latin salata, from Latin Salo, from Latin saliō, from Latin sāl, from Proto-Italic sāls, from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l — salt.

salade (French): salad; sallet

Definitions

  1. salad; sallet

Ancestry of “salade”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italiansalada
2Vulgar Latinsalatasalted
3LatinSalothat flows near Bilbilis and then into the Iberus, now the Jalón
4Latinsaliōto leap, jump, bound
5Latinsālsalt
6Proto-Italicsālssalt
7Proto-Indo-European*sḗh₂lsalt

Words derived from “salade

Every word from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l