Where does “saluer” come from?

saluer (Old French) comes from Old French saluder, from Latin salūtāre, from Latin -āris, from Latin -ālis, from Proto-Italic -ālis — forms relational adjectives.

saluer (Old French): to greet

Definitions

  1. to greet

Ancestry of “saluer”, step by step

saluer traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Old French saluder

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchsaluder—
2Latinsalūtāresalvation, saviour, deliverance
3Latin-ārisfirst conjugation
4Latin-ālis—
5Proto-Italic-ālisforms relational adjectives

via Latin salūtō

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinsalūtōto preserve, keep safe
2Latin-ōsuffixed to nouns or adjectives. Originally a-stem nouns. Later extended to nouns with other stems. Forms regular first-conjugation verbs
3Proto-Indo-European-ōDerives nouns from roots

Words derived from “saluer”

Every word from Proto-Italic -ālis →Every word from Latin -ālis →Every word from Latin -āris →