Where does “sausage” come from?

Sausage comes from Middle English sausige, from Anglo-Norman saussiche, from Late Latin salsicia, from Latin salsicius meaning "salted," ultimately derived from Latin sal meaning "salt."

sausage (English): A food made of ground meat and seasoning, packed...

Definitions

  1. A food made of ground meat and seasoning, packed...

Ancestry of “sausage”, step by step

sausage traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Middle English sawsiche

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishsawsichesausage
2Anglo-Normansausiche—
3Old Frenchsaucicesausage
4Latinsalsīciusprepared with salt
5Latinsalsussalty, briny; salted; witty
6Latinsālsalt
7Proto-Italicsālssalt
8Proto-Indo-European*sḗh₂lsalt

via Vulgar Latin salsicia

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vulgar Latinsalsiciapreserved meat, sausage
2Latinsalsiciusseasoned with salt

Words derived from “sausage”

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