köken: From Middle High German gehalt, deverbal from gehalten (“to keep still, retain, preserve, imprison”), itself from halten (“to hold”). The earliest attested sense of the noun is “custody, prison”. In some southern dialects it also means “room, container, closet”. The modern sense develops in the 15th century, at first in the context of coins and metal alloys.
köken: Inherited from Old French salaire, from Latin salārium, probably a semi-learned borrowing. Cf. also the inherited Old French salier, saler (and modern salière).
aile: à travail égal, salaire égal, salaire de misère, salaire minimum, tout travail mérite salaire
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ḱ- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *péh₂ḱs Proto-Italic *pāks Latin pāx Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin pacō Old Galician-Portuguese pagar Portuguese pagarbor. Marathi पगार (pagār)bor. Hindi पगार Borrowed from Marathi पगार (pagār).