NODE / 0018attestedLatin
sāl
salt
- DATE
- antiquity
- SENSE
- default
- FAMILY
- Indo-European / Italic
- CANONICAL KEY
- node:9:sal:attested
01ANCESTRAL EDGES
ROOT OF THIS ROOT
GO DEEPERinheritanceprobable
Proto-Indo-European · c. 4500–2500 BCE*séh₂l-
salt
- SOUND
- Latin sāl continues the inherited salt word through Italic development.
- MEANING
- Material salt; no wage sense is reconstructed at this stage.
- SCHOLAR
- Mallory & Adams
- CONFIDENCE
- probable
02DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES
THE NEXT HISTORICAL STEP
DESCENDANTderivationestablished
Latin · Roman imperial periodsalārium
official payment or allowance
- SOUND
- salārium is morphologically related to salārius “pertaining to salt,” from sāl.
- MEANING
- The precise bridge from salt to official compensation is not preserved.
- SCHOLAR
- Latin lexicography · Pliny
- CONFIDENCE
- established — Morphology is secure; the historical motivation is not.
03TRANSITIVE DESCENDANT CLOSURE
EVERY REVIEWED BRANCH FROM HERE
This is the complete downstream closure currently supported by the canonical graph. Every displayed step is a real reviewed edge with its own sound claim, meaning claim, scholar, confidence, and citations.
- UNIQUE DESCENDANT NODES
- 3
- REVIEWED EDGES
- 3
- DEEPEST PATH
- 3
- MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED
- 1
HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE
STEP 01derivationestablished
- SOUND
- salārium is morphologically related to salārius “pertaining to salt,” from sāl.
- MEANING
- The precise bridge from salt to official compensation is not preserved.
Latin lexicography · Pliny2 CITATIONSEDGE 15 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 021 EDGE
STEP 02inheritanceestablished
- SOUND
- A regular Romance continuation of Latin salārium.
- MEANING
- Official payment became general compensation.
Romance historical lexicography1 CITATIONEDGE 14 ↗ HISTORICAL STEP 031 EDGE
STEP 03borrowingestablished
- SOUND
- French stress and vowels were adapted into English.
- MEANING
- The word narrowed toward fixed regular compensation.
“Every” means every descendant in the reviewed SET-U graph. It does not convert missing scholarship or missing ingestion into a claim of historical completeness. The coverage ledger remains the honest denominator.
04RECORDED EVIDENCE
ATTESTATIONS / FIRST KNOWN USE
NO RECORDED WITNESS ATTACHED.The reviewed graph does not yet attach a source-reported or directly inspected witness to this canonical form.
05EDITORIAL REUSE
WORD DOSSIERS USING THIS NODE