The fascinating common origin of sausage, salad and sauce
Thursday 22 October 2020 at 21:33
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Edited by Richard Walker, Thursday 22 October 2020 at 22:35
These all come ultimately from Latin salsa or saltus = salted. The same root gives us salt, of course, but also salary, originally a regular payment to allow purchase of salt. But further back Latin sal has common roots with Ancient Greek, ᾰ̔́λς which halide and halogen come from. And perhaps these all stem back to a word for sea. I love these connections between words.
The fascinating common origin of sausage, salad and sauce
These all come ultimately from Latin salsa or saltus = salted. The same root gives us salt, of course, but also salary, originally a regular payment to allow purchase of salt. But further back Latin sal has common roots with Ancient Greek, ᾰ̔́λς which halide and halogen come from. And perhaps these all stem back to a word for sea. I love these connections between words.