Where does “sales” come from?

sales (French) comes from French saler, from Vulgar Latin salare, from Latin salīre, from Latin sāl, from Proto-Italic sāls, from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l — salt.

sales (French): second-person singular present indicative of...

Definitions

  1. second-person singular present indicative of...

Ancestry of “sales”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchsalerto salt
2Vulgar Latinsalare—
3Latinsalīre(jump, spring)
4Latinsālsalt
5Proto-Italicsālssalt
6Proto-Indo-European*sḗh₂lsalt
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l →Every word from Proto-Italic sāls →Every word from Latin sāl →