Where does “salade” come from?

salade (Middle English) comes from Old 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.

salade (Middle English): salad; An ingredient in a salad

Definitions

  1. salad; An ingredient in a salad

Ancestry of “salade”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchsalade—
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

Words derived from “salade”

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