Where does “Zooss” come from?

Zooss (Luxembourgish) comes from Old French sauce, from Latin salsus, from Latin sāl, from Proto-Italic sāls, from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l — salt.

Zooss (Luxembourgish): sauce, dip

Definitions

  1. sauce, dip

Ancestry of “Zooss”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchsaucesauce; willow
2Latinsalsussalty, briny; salted; witty
3Latinsālsalt
4Proto-Italicsālssalt
5Proto-Indo-European*sḗh₂lsalt
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l →Every word from Proto-Italic sāls →Every word from Latin sāl →