Where does “sósa” come from?

sósa (Icelandic) comes from Danish sovs, 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.

sósa (Icelandic): sauce

Definitions

  1. sauce

Ancestry of “sósa”, step by step

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

Words derived from “sósa”

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