Where does “saus” come from?

saus (Norwegian Nynorsk) 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 — salt.

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

Definitions

  1. sauce; genitive singular of sau

Ancestry of “saus”, step by step

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

Words derived from “saus”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l →Every word from Proto-Italic sāls →Every word from Latin sāl →