Where does “ketchup” come from?

Ketchup is an English word derived from Malay kicap, which comes from Min Nan 鮭汁, a Chinese sauce made from fermented fish.

ketchup (English): A tomato-vinegar-based sauce, sometimes...

Definitions

  1. A tomato-vinegar-based sauce, sometimes...

Ancestry of “ketchup”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hainanese膎汁—
2Indonesiankecapsoy sauce; sound of tongue smacking
3Hokkien膎汁—

Words derived from “ketchup”

Every word from Hokkien 膎汁 →Every word from Indonesian kecap →Every word from Hainanese 膎汁 →