Where does “Salär” come from?

Salär (German) comes from French salaire, from Italian salario, from Latin salārium, from Latin sāl, from Proto-Italic sāls, from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l — salt.

Salär (German): salary

Definitions

  1. salary

Ancestry of “Salär”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchsalairesalary, wage
2Italiansalariopay, wages, salary; first-person singular present...
3Latinsalāriuma salary, stipend, allowance, pension
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 →