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Hi, everyone. And welcome back to our new segment It Means What？
Yeah!
You sound very excited.
I am.
欢迎回来我们的新板块【词源考古研究所】, Hi安澜.
Hi Lulu, hi everyone.
In this segment we are going to share with you the interesting origin stories of some phrases and words.
So let me propose the word for today.
Okay.
It’s a word that everybody is interested in and everybody knows, but I've always wondered about the origin of this word.
Okay. Salary
This is salary.
Salary?
So you work, you get paid and that payment is usually called salary, 你的薪水或者工资, but why salary, where does it come from？
That's actually a really good question because it comes from a Latin word, Sal.
Sal?
Sal.
And Sal means salt.
Salt like salt and pepper salt?
Yep, salt you put on your food.
就是盐, quite a leap from salt to money.
Not really, that's because salt for centuries has always been very expensive.
It's a very important commodity that's for sure.
Very very important. There were huge trade routes around salt. So people were using gold to buy salt and they were also using salt as payment.