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

  1. A spicy tomato sauce, often including onions and...

Ancestry of “salsa”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Spanishsalsasauce, gravy; salsa
2Vulgar Latinsalsanominative feminine singular of salsus;...
3Latinsalsussalty, briny; salted; witty
4Latinsālsalt
5Proto-Italicsālssalt
6Proto-Indo-European*sḗh₂lsalt

Words derived from “salsa”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l →Every word from Proto-Italic sāls →Every word from Latin sāl →