Etymograph

English

salo

Salo may come from Russian са́ло ‘suet, fat, lard’.

  1. Russianmodernса́ло1sálo‘suet, fat, lard’uncertain
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2009salo1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English salo
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 2009, Michael Schwirtz, Russia and Cuba Take Steps to Revive a Bond: “[…] Mr. Castro waxed nostalgic, recounting the time he…”.

Earlier history uncertain. See Wiktionary.

Lineage

  1. Russianmodernса́лоWiktionary, English salosálo‘suet, fat, lard’uncertain
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2009saloWiktionary, English salo. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 2009, Michael Schwirtz, Russia and Cuba Take Steps to Revive a Bond: “[…] Mr. Castro waxed nostalgic, recounting the time he…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *sed- ‘to sit’

set, president, size, sell, sit, sitting, seat, method, session, chair, resident, settle, assess, nest, possess, siege, niche, exodus, reside, subsidy, sedan, residue, saddle, sediment, nye, residual, insidious, sedentary, dissident, beset, cathode, soot, sedative, setter, obsess, anode, sedate, prasad, chaise, presidio, 95 more

Today it means

noun a type of fatback, or non-rendered underskin pig fat consumed in Central and Eastern Europe, usually seasoned

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “salo”. 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.

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