German 'Salz' and English 'salt' share a PIE root that also gave us 'salary,' 'salad,' and 'sausage.'
German word meaning 'salt,' the crystalline mineral sodium chloride used for seasoning and preservation; cognate of English 'salt.'
From Old High German 'salz,' from Proto-Germanic *saltą, from PIE *seh₂l- (salt). This is one of the most stable and widely attested roots in Indo-European: Latin 'sāl,' Greek 'háls,' Old Irish 'salann,' Old Church Slavonic 'solь,' Lithuanian 'druska' is a replacement, but the old form survives in 'saldus' (sweet). The Germanic *saltą preserves the PIE root with a *-t- suffix. Grimm's Law does not apply here because there was no stop consonant
The city of Salzburg literally means 'salt fortress,' named for the salt mines that made the region wealthy. The English word 'salary' comes from Latin 'salārium,' traditionally explained as 'salt money' — the allowance given to Roman soldiers to buy salt, though some scholars argue it more broadly meant 'provision money.' Either way, salt and pay have