The story
- Proto-Indo-European · derived from*sl̥H-ik-“willow”
- Latin · derived fromsalix“willow”
- Old Spanish · derived fromsalze
- Spanish · borrowed fromsauzal“willow grove”
- English todaySausal
From Spanish sauzal (“willow grove”), sauce (“willow”) + -al, from Old Spanish salze, from Latin salix (“willow”) (compare Catalan salze, Italian salice, Romanian salcie), from Proto-Indo-European *sl̥H-ik- (“willow”).
Words from the same roots
Spanishsauzal all →
Sausalito
Latinsalix all →
salicylicSalcedoSaussuresalicaceoussalicetsalicinsalicional
Proto-Indo-European*sl̥H-ik- all →
sargasso
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.