Where does “sos” come from?

sos (Romanian) 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.

sos (Romanian): sauce; gravy

Definitions

  1. sauce; gravy

Ancestry of “sos”, step by step

sos traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via French sauce

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

via Hungarian sás

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Hungariansássedge
2Proto-Finno-Ugricčaćkɜa species of bird of prey
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l →Every word from Proto-Italic sāls →Every word from Latin sāl →