Etymograph

English

salina

Salina comes from Latin salīna ‘salt pan, salt works’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*sḗh₂l1‘salt’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*sāls1‘salt’reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsal1‘salt’
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsalīna2‘salt pan, salt works’
  5. Englishtodaysalina2

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin salina
  2. 2 Wiktionary, English salina

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*sḗh₂lWiktionary, Latin salina‘salt’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*sālsWiktionary, Latin salina‘salt’reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsalWiktionary, Latin salina‘salt’
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsalīnaWiktionary, English salina‘salt pan, salt works’
  5. EnglishtodaysalinaWiktionary, English salina

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l ‘salt’

salt, salsa, saucer, halogen, 31 more

through Latin sal ‘salt’

sauce, salary, salad, cellar, sausage, sal, salami, 14 more

Today it means

noun A salt marsh, or salt pond, enclosed from the sea.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “salina”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Latin salina. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l / salina

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