[?] Salt
Way, way back the Roman times, the Roman soldier was given an allowance to pay the salt he needed. The Latin word [?] salt is "sal".
Today there's a word meaning wages paid by the month (or by the year).
Yes, "salary" is the word. Funny, isn't it ?
Now, I assume you know that salt is a substance also referred as Sodium Chloride or NaCl.
Throughout history one can read stories how food of all sorts was preserved, cured or impregnated with salt mainly to store , preventing it turning sour.
Salt used purely seasoning purposes is probably a rather late habit man.
"Saltern" is the building which salt is made boiling or evaporation, also a salt-works, a plot land, laid out pools and walks, which sea-water is allowed to evaporate naturally.
Words related the word salt are found in Italian and Spanish names of particular dances, often implying a dance some sort containing sudden jerking movements, leaping, jumping, or some sudden change movement (1600s and 1700s).
There is also early use the word salt connection a description the sexual desire and excitement a bitch (1600s). Salt was "sealt" in Old English , then later it developed "salt".