Where does “sable” come from?

sable (French) comes from Old French martre sable, from Middle Low German sabel.

sable (French): sandy; biscuit sablé, shortbread; past participle...

Definitions

  1. sandy; biscuit sablé, shortbread; past participle...

Ancestry of “sable”, step by step

sable traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Old French martre sable

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchmartre sablesable marten; sable martin
2Middle Low Germansabel—

via Latin sabulo

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinsabulocoarse sand, gravel

Words derived from “sable”

Every word from Middle Low German sabel →