Where does “*sap” come from?

*sap (Proto-West Germanic) comes from Proto-Indo-European sab- — juice; taste.

*sap (Proto-West Germanic): juice

Definitions

  1. juice

Ancestry of “*sap”, step by step

*sap traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Proto-Indo-European sab-

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-Europeansab-juice; taste

via Proto-Indo-European sep-

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-Europeansep-to taste, to try out

Words derived from “*sap”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European sab- →