Where does “salami” come from?

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

salami (Polish): salami; instrumental plural of sala

Definitions

  1. salami; instrumental plural of sala

Ancestry of “salami”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italiansalamiplural of salame
2Italiansalamesalami
3Italiansalesalt, sal; plural of sala; third-person singular...
4Latinsālsalt
5Proto-Italicsālssalt
6Proto-Indo-European*sḗh₂lsalt
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l →Every word from Proto-Italic sāls →Every word from Latin sāl →