Where does “salam” come from?
salam (Romanian) comes from Italian salame, from Italian sale, from Latin sāl, from Proto-Italic sāls, from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l.
salam (Romanian): salami
Ancestry of “salam”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Italian | salame | salami |
| 2 | Italian | sale | salt, sal; plural of sala; third-person singular... |
| 3 | Latin | sāl | — |
| 4 | Proto-Italic | sāls | — |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | *sḗh₂l | — |