Where does “grekisk sallad” come from?

grekisk sallad (Swedish) comes from Swedish sallad, from French salade, from Italian salada, from Vulgar Latin salata, from Latin Salo, from Latin saliō, from Latin sāl, from Proto-Italic sāls — salt.

grekisk sallad (Swedish): Greek salad

Definitions

  1. Greek salad

Ancestry of “grekisk sallad”, step by step

grekisk sallad traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Swedish sallad

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Swedishsalladsalad; vegetables consisting of leaves, typically...
2Frenchsaladesalad; sallet
3Italiansalada
4Vulgar Latinsalatasalted
5LatinSalothat flows near Bilbilis and then into the Iberus, now the Jalón
6Latinsaliōto leap, jump, bound
7Latinsālsalt
8Proto-Italicsālssalt
9Proto-Indo-European*sḗh₂lsalt

via Swedish grekisk

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1SwedishgrekiskGreek (of the Greek language, people or country)
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂lEvery word from Proto-Italic sālsEvery word from Latin sāl