Proto-Germanic *saltom belongs to the Indo-European salt family represented as *séh₂l- in the existing dossier and *sal- in other references.
CANONICAL RELATIONSHIP RECORD
COVERAGE LEDGER ↗EDGE / 0487inheritanceprobable
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*saltom
salt
OPEN NODE 523 ↗DESCENDS FROM→
PARENT / EARLIER FORM / reconstructedProto-Indo-European · c. 4500–2500 BCE*séh₂l-
salt
OPEN NODE 19 ↗01
THE COMPLETE RELATIONSHIP
EVERY FIELD, NOT A FAIRY TALE
The material salt meaning remains stable; no payment sense exists at the reconstructed stage.
No separate chronology note is attached beyond the endpoint date ranges.
Mallory & Adams · Etymonline · UT LRC editors
probable — Root notation differs across references without changing the comparative salt-family claim.
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CITATION REGISTER
SOURCES ON THIS EDGE
The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European WorldAppendix 2, Proto-Indo-European salt item
supportsAUDIT SOURCE ↗ORIGINAL ↗Supplies the laryngeal reconstruction already used by the salary dossier.
Salt — Origin and historyHeadword history: *saltom from PIE *sal-
supportsAUDIT SOURCE ↗ORIGINAL ↗Publishes the consonantal root representation.
Indo-European Lexicon: sal-Pokorny etymon sal- and Indo-European reflexes
supportsAUDIT SOURCE ↗ORIGINAL ↗Independently supplies the comparative salt family.
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