Where does “šos” come from?

šos (Serbo-Croatian) 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.

šos (Serbo-Croatian): skirt

Definitions

  1. skirt

Ancestry of “šos”, step by step

šos 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 German Schoß

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanSchoßlap; womb; fold
2Middle High Germanschoz—
3Old High Germanscōzolap upper legs of a seated person
4Proto-Germanicskautazcorner; wedge; the corner of a piece of cloth or...
5Proto-Indo-European(s)kewd-to advance, push; to drive, propel
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l →Every word from Proto-Italic sāls →Every word from Latin sāl →