Where does “매운 소스” come from?

매운 소스 (Korean) comes from Korean 소스, from English sauce, from Middle English sauce, from Old French sause, from Vulgar Latin salsa, from Latin salsus, from Latin sāl, from Proto-Italic sāls — salt.

매운 소스 (Korean): pungent sauce

Definitions

  1. pungent sauce

Ancestry of “매운 소스”, step by step

매운 소스 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Korean 소스

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Korean소스sauce; source
2EnglishsauceA liquid condiment or accompaniment to food;...
3Middle EnglishsauceA sauce or gravy; a liquid condiment; A solution...
4Old Frenchsausesauce (condiment)
5Vulgar Latinsalsanominative feminine singular of salsus;...
6Latinsalsussalty, briny; salted; witty
7Latinsālsalt
8Proto-Italicsālssalt
9Proto-Indo-European*sḗh₂lsalt

via Korean 매운

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Korean매운
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l
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