Where does “sauce” come from?

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

sauce (Old French): sauce; willow

Definitions

  1. sauce; willow

Ancestry of “sauce”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinsalsussalty, briny; salted; witty
2Latinsālsalt
3Proto-Italicsālssalt
4Proto-Indo-European*sḗh₂lsalt

Words derived from “sauce”

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