Where does “salāt” come from?

salāt (German) comes from Italian salata, from Vulgar Latin salata, from Latin Salo, from Latin saliō, from Latin sāl, from Proto-Italic sāls, from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l — salt.

salāt (German): salad mixed, usually cold dish

Definitions

  1. salad mixed, usually cold dish

Ancestry of “salāt”, step by step

salāt traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Italian salata

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italiansalatafeminine singular of salato; salad, something...
2Vulgar Latinsalatasalted
3LatinSalothat flows near Bilbilis and then into the Iberus, now the Jalón
4Latinsaliōto leap, jump, bound
5Latinsālsalt
6Proto-Italicsālssalt
7Proto-Indo-European*sḗh₂lsalt

via Arabic صَلَاة

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Arabicصَلَاةprayer; salat, prayer
2Classical Syriacܨܠܘܬܐprayer; temple, sanctuary; reconciliation,...
3Aramaicצלותאprayer

Words derived from “salāt

Every word from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂lEvery word from Proto-Italic sālsEvery word from Latin sāl