Where does “sauce” come from?
sauce (Spanish) comes from Old Spanish salze, from Latin salix, from Proto-Indo-European *sl̥H-ik-.
sauce (Spanish): willow
Ancestry of “sauce”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Old Spanish | salze | willow |
| 2 | Latin | salix | willow; a willow branch |
| 3 | Proto-Indo-European | *sl̥H-ik- | — |
Words derived from “sauce”