Where does “sillsallad” come from?

sillsallad (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.

sillsallad (Swedish): A Swedish salad of pickled herring with beetroot, egg, etc

Definitions

  1. A Swedish salad of pickled herring with beetroot, egg, etc

Ancestry of “sillsallad”, step by step

sillsallad 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 sill

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Swedishsilla herring
2Old Norsesíldherring
3Proto-Germanicsīląa kind of fish; a launce, sand eel; a herring
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂lEvery word from Proto-Italic sālsEvery word from Latin sāl