The story
- Latin · derived fromsāl“salt”
- Medieval Latin · derived fromsalare
- Old French · derived fromsaler
- Middle English · inherited fromsalar
- English todaysaler
From Middle English salar, saler, salere, saller, salure, seler, from Old French saler, salere, salier and Medieval Latin salare, from Latin sāl (“salt”).
Words from the same roots
Latinsāl all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.