Etymology

Sausal

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Today it means: A river in Alameda County, California, United States. Full definition →

Spanish sauzal ← Old Spanish salze ← Latin salix
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*sl̥H-ik-“willow”
  2. Latin · derived fromsalix“willow”
  3. Old Spanish · derived fromsalze
  4. Spanish · borrowed fromsauzal“willow grove”
  5. 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

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