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If you knew anything about the etymology of the word salary, you'd not have bothered writing that. Here's a hint: Salary = salt given as payment for services r
by alexeisadeski3 13y ago
If you knew anything about the etymology of the word salary, you'd not have bothered writing that.
Here's a hint: Salary = salt given as payment for services rendered.
- asimov42 13y agoYou coudnt be more wrong. Read more about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_British_salt_tax_in_India http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_British_salt_tax...
- eevilspock 13y agoInteresting. Let's say you are right and Singh means "salary" (It's not clear). Here's something from Wikipedia about that: By the time of the Hebrew Book of Ezra (550 to 450 BCE), salt from a person was synonymous with drawing sustenance, taking pay, or being in that person's service. At that time, salt production was strictly controlled by the monarchy or ruling elite. Depending on the translation of Ezra 4:14, the servants of King Artaxerxes I of Persia explain their loyalty variously as "because we are salted with the salt of the palace" or "because we have maintenance from the king" or "because we are responsible to the king". Somehow my point stands.
- alexeisadeski3 13y agoI'm glad that you've researched the history of salt as payment from monarchs to their soldiers. I'm not sure how that's supposed to support your point. Pretty sure it supports mine.