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Indo-European Lexicon: sal-
- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Linguistics Research Center Editors
- YEAR
- Not recorded
- PUBLISHER
- University of Texas at Austin
- DOI
- Not recorded
- SOURCE TYPE
- research database
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CONTRARIAN TRUTH CLAIMS
RANKED REVEALS THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
Salary is truly salt's cousin—and the famous story is still false.
Salt and salary meet in the inherited salt family. Real kinship does not prove Roman soldiers received ordinary wages in literal salt.
*séh₂l- → *saltom → sealt → salt → salt
sal- reflex list: English salt and salary; Latin sal and salariumDocuments genuine comparative kinship.
SCHOLARLY DISAGREEMENT
DISPUTE POSITIONS THAT CITE THIS SOURCE
Is the PIE salt root written *sal- or *séh₂l-?
Both appear in the reviewed references at different representational resolutions. SET-U reuses *séh₂l- as the canonical dossier node and records *sal- as an alternative notation, not a second word.
Pokorny etymon sal-Supplies the consonantal alternative notation.
Does the salt relationship prove soldiers were paid in salt?
No. Salt and salary belong to the same comparative salt family, but the real lexical kinship does not establish the viral literal-payment story.
sal- reflex list: salt, salary, Latin salarium and salDocuments genuine comparative family membership.
CANONICAL RELATIONSHIP CLAIMS
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salt → sealt
Middle English → Old English · inheritance
- SOUND
- Old English sealt loses or reshapes inherited inflection while the stem stabilizes as Middle English salt.
- MEANING
- The condiment and preservative meaning remains central.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Merriam-Webster · UT LRC editors
sal- reflex list: Old English sealt and Middle English saltIndependently places both forms in the comparative family.
sealt → *saltom
Old English → Proto-Germanic · inheritance
- SOUND
- Old English sealt regularly continues reconstructed Proto-Germanic *saltom.
- MEANING
- The material salt sense remains stable across Germanic.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Etymonline · UT LRC editors
sal- reflex list: Old English and Germanic reflexesSupplies comparative support for the reconstructed stage.
*saltom → *séh₂l-
Proto-Germanic → Proto-Indo-European · inheritance
- SOUND
- Proto-Germanic *saltom belongs to the Indo-European salt family represented as *séh₂l- in the existing dossier and *sal- in other references.
- MEANING
- The material salt meaning remains stable; no payment sense exists at the reconstructed stage.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Mallory & Adams · Etymonline · UT LRC editors
Pokorny etymon sal- and Indo-European reflexesIndependently supplies the comparative salt family.
*séh₂l- → UNKNOWN
Proto-Indo-European → Beyond secure reconstruction · knowledge boundary
- SOUND
- No older form is promoted beyond the reconstructed salt family.
- MEANING
- The graph stops before speculation while preserving the real path shared with Latin sāl and salary.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- SET-U editorial boundary · Mallory & Adams · UT LRC
Pokorny etymon sal-Independently identifies the current comparative endpoint.
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Indo-European linguistic horizon
Documents the alternative comparative notation and reflex set.
Pokorny etymon sal- · uncertainGermanic and Anglo-Saxon Europe
Independently supplies comparative reflexes.
sal- reflex list: Old English and Germanic forms · broadNON-GENEALOGICAL CONNECTIONS
HISTORICAL CONTEXT, KEPT SEPARATE
WORD-FAMILY REUSE
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