Where does “sauce” come from?

sauce (Spanish) comes from Old Spanish salze, from Latin salix, from Proto-Indo-European *sl̥H-ik-.

sauce (Spanish): willow

Definitions

  1. willow

Ancestry of “sauce”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Spanishsalzewillow
2Latinsalixwillow; a willow branch
3Proto-Indo-European*sl̥H-ik-—

Words derived from “sauce”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European *sl̥H-ik- →Every word from Latin salix →Every word from Old Spanish salze →