Where does “salad” come from?

salad (Haitian Creole) comes from French salade, from Italian salada, from Vulgar Latin salata, from Latin Salo, from Latin saliō, from Latin sāl, from Proto-Italic sāls, from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l — salt.

salad (Haitian Creole): salad

Definitions

  1. salad

Ancestry of “salad”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchsaladesalad; sallet
2Italiansalada—
3Vulgar Latinsalatasalted
4LatinSalothat flows near Bilbilis and then into the Iberus, now the Jalón
5Latinsaliōto leap, jump, bound
6Latinsālsalt
7Proto-Italicsālssalt
8Proto-Indo-European*sḗh₂lsalt
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l →