Where does “salaire” come from?
salaire (French) comes from Italian salario, from Latin salārium, from Latin sāl, from Proto-Italic sāls, from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l.
salaire (French): salary, wage
Ancestry of “salaire”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Italian | salario | pay, wages, salary; first-person singular present... |
| 2 | Latin | salārium | — |
| 3 | Latin | sāl | — |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | sāls | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | *sḗh₂l | — |
Words derived from “salaire”