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Where does “salto” come from?

salto (French) comes from Italian salto, from Latin saltus, from Latin saliō, from Latin sāl, from Proto-Italic sāls, from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l.

salto (French): flip

Definitions

  1. flip

Ancestry of “salto”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italiansaltojump, leap, spring, bound; change, jump, leap,...
2LatinsaltusA leap, jump; a leaping; A forest or mountain...
3Latinsaliō—
4Latinsāl—
5Proto-Italicsāls—
6Proto-Indo-European*sḗh₂l—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l →