Etymology

sabayon

sa·ba·yon
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Today it means: Synonym of zabaglione. Full definition →

French sabayon ← Italian zabaione ← Proto-Indo-European *sab-
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromsabaia“Illyrian barley beer”
  2. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*sab-“taste”
  3. Italian · derived fromzabaione
  4. French · borrowed fromsabayon
  5. English todaysabayon

From French sabayon, from Italian zabaione, possibly from Latin sabaia (“Illyrian barley beer”, from an Illyrian word probably from Proto-Indo-European *sab- (“taste”)) + -one (augmentative suffix).

Words from the same roots

Proto-Indo-European*sab- all →

Latinsabaia all →

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