No older form is promoted beyond the reconstructed salt family.
CANONICAL RELATIONSHIP RECORD
COVERAGE LEDGER ↗EDGE / 0488knowledge boundaryboundary
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A relationship—not a generated explanation. Both endpoints, every editorial field, every citation, and every dossier reuse are preserved below.
*séh₂l-
salt
OPEN NODE 19 ↗DESCENDS FROM→
PARENT / EARLIER FORM / boundaryBeyond secure reconstruction · before the reconstructed salt family · salt deep boundaryUNKNOWN
No secure older ancestor is promoted beyond the salt root.
OPEN NODE 525 ↗01
THE COMPLETE RELATIONSHIP
EVERY FIELD, NOT A FAIRY TALE
The graph stops before speculation while preserving the real path shared with Latin sāl and salary.
No separate chronology note is attached beyond the endpoint date ranges.
SET-U editorial boundary · Mallory & Adams · UT LRC
boundary — no additional confidence note is attached.
reviewed
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CITATION REGISTER
SOURCES ON THIS EDGE
The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European WorldProto-Indo-European salt item
supportsAUDIT SOURCE ↗ORIGINAL ↗Supports stopping at the reconstructed salt horizon.
Indo-European Lexicon: sal-Pokorny etymon sal-
supportsAUDIT SOURCE ↗ORIGINAL ↗Independently identifies the current comparative endpoint.
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