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Multilinguo@multilinguo@mastodon.social (2026-07-21 08:09:59)
The word for salt is one of the oldest we share.

Proto-Indo-European *séh₂ls survived across most of the family:
- Germanic: salt, Salz, zout
- Romance (via Latin sal): sal, sale, sel, sare
- Slavic: соль (sol'), sól, sůl
- Baltic: sāls (LV)
- Hellenic: ἅλς (háls)
- Celtic: salann, halen

Two branches went their own way: Lithuanian coined druska, Indo-Iranian went its own words (Sanskrit लवण lavaṇa, Persian namak).

#Etymology #IndoEuropean #Linguistics
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