Where does “salumaio” come from?

salumaio (Italian) comes from Italian salume, from Italian sale, from Latin sāl, from Proto-Italic sāls, from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l — salt.

salumaio (Italian): grocer

Definitions

  1. grocer

Ancestry of “salumaio”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1ItaliansalumeAny food product made from ground meat,...
2Italiansalesalt, sal; plural of sala; third-person singular...
3Latinsālsalt
4Proto-Italicsālssalt
5Proto-Indo-European*sḗh₂lsalt
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l →Every word from Proto-Italic sāls →Every word from Latin sāl →
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