Where does “sốt vàng” come from?
sốt vàng (Vietnamese) comes from Vietnamese sốt, 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.
sốt vàng (Vietnamese): a gold rush; a period of feverish migration into an area where gold has been discovered
Definitions
- a gold rush; a period of feverish migration into an area where gold has been discovered
Ancestry of “sốt vàng”, step by step
sốt vàng traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Vietnamese sốt
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vietnamese | sốt | steaming hot; at all; to have a fever; to have a... |
| 2 | French | sauce | sauce |
| 3 | Old French | sause | sauce (condiment) |
| 4 | Vulgar Latin | salsa | nominative feminine singular of salsus;... |
| 5 | Latin | salsus | salty, briny; salted; witty |
| 6 | Latin | sāl | salt |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | sāls | salt |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | *sḗh₂l | salt |