Where does “sugar” come from?

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

sugar (Latin): first-person singular future passive indicative...

Definitions

  1. first-person singular future passive indicative...

Ancestry of “sugar”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatinsugoI suck; I take in; I exhaust
2Proto-Indo-Europeansug-—
3Proto-Indo-Europeansew-to press out, extract; juice; liquid, rain; to...
Every word from Proto-Indo-European sew- →Every word from Proto-Indo-European sug- →Every word from Latin sugo →