Where does “sugar” come from?

sugar (Galician) comes from Vulgar Latin sucare, from Latin sūcus, from Proto-Indo-European sug-, from Proto-Indo-European sew- — to press out, extract; juice; liquid, rain; to...

sugar (Galician): to suck

Definitions

  1. to suck

Ancestry of “sugar”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Vulgar Latinsucare—
2Latinsūcusjuice
3Proto-Indo-Europeansug-—
4Proto-Indo-Europeansew-to press out, extract; juice; liquid, rain; to...

Words derived from “sugar”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European sew- →Every word from Proto-Indo-European sug- →Every word from Latin sūcus →