From Proto-Turkic *sal- (“to put, throw, drop, lower”).
Cognate with Karakhanid (sal-, “to let go, free, lower”), Old Uyghur (sal-, “to swing”) Azerbaijani salmaq (“to drop, lower”), Bashkir һалыу (halıw, “to put”), Crimean Tatar salmaq (“to put”), Chuvash сулма (sulma, “to swing, throw, put, impose”), Karaim sal-, Karachay-Balkar салыргъа (salırğa), Kumyk салмакъ (salmaq), Azerbaijani salmaq, Turkish salmak, Turkmen salmak (“to put, place”), Salar sal, Tuvan салыр (salır, “to put, place, let go”), Uzbek solmoq.
салар • (salar)
N. A. Baskakov, Toščakova N.A, editor (1947), “сал-”, in Ojrotsko-Russkij Slovarʹ [Oyrot-Russian Dictionary], Moscow: M.: OGIZ, →ISBN