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Where does “sal-” come from?

sal- (Proto-Balto-Slavic) comes from Proto-Indo-European sal- — dirty, grey; dirt, dirty; grayish, impure gray.

Ancestry of “sal-”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-Europeansal-dirty, grey; dirt, dirty; grayish, impure gray

Words derived from “sal-”

  • sāls
Every word from Proto-Indo-European sal- →