Where does “saftsås” come from?

saftsås (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.

saftsås (Swedish): a dessert sauce made from cordial/squash, usually diluted and thickened with potato starch or arrowroot

Definitions

  1. a dessert sauce made from cordial/squash, usually diluted and thickened with potato starch or arrowroot

Ancestry of “saftsås”, step by step

saftsås 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 saft

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Swedishsaftjuice, sap; squash, cordial, fruit syrup
2Middle High GermanSaft—
3Old High Germansaf—
4Proto-West Germanic*sapjuice
5Proto-Indo-Europeansab-juice; taste
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *sḗh₂l →Every word from Proto-Italic sāls →Every word from Latin sāl →