Where does “saltar” come from?

saltar (Galician) comes from Old Portuguese saltar, from Latin saltō, from Latin saliō, from Latin sāl, from Proto-Italic sāls, from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l — salt.

saltar (Galician): to jump

Definitions

  1. to jump

Ancestry of “saltar”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Portuguesesaltar—
2Latinsaltōto dance, jump
3Latinsaliōto leap, jump, bound
4Latinsālsalt
5Proto-Italicsālssalt
6Proto-Indo-European*sḗh₂lsalt

Words derived from “saltar”

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