Where does “salsa” come from?
Salsa comes from Spanish salsa, from Latin salsus meaning salty, derived from Latin sal meaning salt, which traces to Proto-Indo-European ser-.
salsa (English): A spicy tomato sauce, often including onions and...
Definitions
- A spicy tomato sauce, often including onions and...
Ancestry of “salsa”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Spanish | salsa | sauce, gravy; salsa |
| 2 | Vulgar Latin | salsa | nominative feminine singular of salsus;... |
| 3 | Latin | salsus | salty, briny; salted; witty |
| 4 | Latin | sāl | — |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | sāls | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | *sḗh₂l | — |
Words derived from “salsa”