Where does “saludar” come from?

saludar (Old Spanish) comes from Latin salūtō, from Latin -ō, from Proto-Indo-European -ō — Derives nouns from roots.

Ancestry of “saludar”, step by step

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 “saludar”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -ō →Every word from Latin -ō →Every word from Latin salūtō →