Food & drink

salt

Source:*solьProto-Slaviccertain

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English

salt

Polish

sól

sul

Cognate· distant (Indo-European)Same source — the sound laws connect them.

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BCS script

Latin under Cyrillic

Russian
сольsolʹ
solʲinherited
Ukrainian
сільsilʹ
sʲilʲinherited
The o turned into і once the closing yer fell (сіль, gen. солі).
Polish
sól
sulinherited
Czech
sůl
suːlinherited
Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian
soсо
soinherited
Final l became o and merged with the vowel: sol → so (gen. soli).
Standard-specific words: sol (Croatian)
English
salt
Distant English relative — Salt and *solь share an Indo-European root.