The story
- Latin · derived fromsalsus“salted”
- Spanish · borrowed fromsalsa“sauce”
- English todaysalsa
PIE word *sḗh₂l Borrowed from Spanish salsa (“sauce”), from Latin salsus (“salted”), whence also the doublet sauce (via Old French).
Words from the same roots
Latinsalsus all →
sauce
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.