Where does “köttfärssås” come from?

köttfärssås (Swedish) comes from Swedish sås, 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.

köttfärssås (Swedish): any sauce based on ground meat (often also containing tomato and onion), like meat sauce or Bolognese sauce

Definitions

  1. any sauce based on ground meat (often also containing tomato and onion), like meat sauce or Bolognese sauce

Ancestry of “köttfärssås”, step by step

köttfärssås traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Swedish sås

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Swedishsåsgravy; sauce; semen
2Frenchsaucesauce
3Old Frenchsausesauce (condiment)
4Vulgar Latinsalsanominative feminine singular of salsus;...
5Latinsalsussalty, briny; salted; witty
6Latinsālsalt
7Proto-Italicsālssalt
8Proto-Indo-European*sḗh₂lsalt

via Swedish köttfärs

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Swedishköttfärsground meat, minced meat
2Swedishfarsa farce; a parody or comedy
3Frenchfarcestuffing; farce
4Old Frenchfarse—
5Old Frenchfarsir—
6LatinfarcioI cram, stuff
7Proto-Italicfarkjōto stuff
8Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰrekʷ-to condense; to crowd together
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l →Every word from Proto-Italic sāls →Every word from Latin sāl →