Where does “Tomatensoße” come from?

Tomatensoße (German) comes from German Soße, from French sauce, from Old French sause, from Vulgar Latin salsa, from Latin salsus, from Latin sāl, from Proto-Italic sāls, from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l — salt.

Tomatensoße (German): tomato sauce

Definitions

  1. tomato sauce

Ancestry of “Tomatensoße”, step by step

Tomatensoße traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via German Soße

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanSoßesauce, gravy
2Frenchsaucesauce
3Old Frenchsausesauce (condiment)
4Vulgar Latinsalsanominative feminine singular of salsus;...
5Latinsalsussalty, briny; salted; witty
6Latinsālsalt
7Proto-Italicsālssalt
8Proto-Indo-European*sḗh₂lsalt

via German Tomate

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanTomatetomato
2Frenchtomatetomato; first/third-person singular present...
3Spanishtomatetomato; tomatillo; hole
4Classical Nahuatltomātltomato
5Proto-Nahuan*toma-tomatillo
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l →Every word from Proto-Italic sāls →Every word from Latin sāl →