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 — salt.

salaire (French): salary, wage

Definitions

  1. salary, wage

Ancestry of “salaire”, step by step

salaire traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Italian salario

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italiansalariopay, wages, salary; first-person singular present...
2Latinsalāriuma salary, stipend, allowance, pension
3Latinsālsalt
4Proto-Italicsālssalt
5Proto-Indo-European*sḗh₂lsalt

via Old French salaire

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchsalairesalary

Words derived from “salaire”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l →Every word from Proto-Italic sāls →Every word from Latin sāl →