The story
- Latin · derived fromsabaia“Illyrian barley beer”
- Proto-Indo-European · derived from*sab-“taste”
- Italian · derived fromzabaione
- French · borrowed fromsabayon
- 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 →
sapzabaglione
Latinsabaia all →
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.