Where does “ensalada” come from?

ensalada (Spanish) comes from Italian salada, from Vulgar Latin salata, from Latin Salo, from Latin saliō, from Latin sāl, from Proto-Italic sāls, from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l — salt.

ensalada (Spanish): salad

Definitions

  1. salad

Ancestry of “ensalada”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Italiansalada—
2Vulgar Latinsalatasalted
3LatinSalothat flows near Bilbilis and then into the Iberus, now the Jalón
4Latinsaliōto leap, jump, bound
5Latinsālsalt
6Proto-Italicsālssalt
7Proto-Indo-European*sḗh₂lsalt

Words derived from “ensalada”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l →Every word from Proto-Italic sāls →Every word from Latin sāl →