Where does “sósublettur” come from?

sósublettur (Icelandic) comes from Icelandic sósa, from Danish sovs, from French sauce, from Old French sause, from Vulgar Latin salsa, from Latin salsus, from Latin sāl, from Proto-Italic sāls — salt.

sósublettur (Icelandic): a sauce stain

Definitions

  1. a sauce stain

Ancestry of “sósublettur”, step by step

sósublettur traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Icelandic sósa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Icelandicsósasauce
2Danishsovssauce
3Frenchsaucesauce
4Old Frenchsausesauce (condiment)
5Vulgar Latinsalsanominative feminine singular of salsus;...
6Latinsalsussalty, briny; salted; witty
7Latinsālsalt
8Proto-Italicsālssalt
9Proto-Indo-European*sḗh₂lsalt

via Icelandic blettur

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Icelandicbletturstain, blot, patch; a plot of land
2Old Norseblettrstain; blot
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l →Every word from Proto-Italic sāls →Every word from Latin sāl →