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Where does “saus” come from?

saus (Norwegian Bokmål) comes 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.

saus (Norwegian Bokmål): sauce; genitive singular of sau

Definitions

  1. sauce; genitive singular of sau

Ancestry of “saus”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchsaucesauce
2Old Frenchsause—
3Vulgar Latinsalsanominative feminine singular of salsus;...
4Latinsalsussalty, briny; salted; witty
5Latinsāl—
6Proto-Italicsāls—
7Proto-Indo-European*sḗh₂l—

Words derived from “saus”

  • soyasaus
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l →