The story
- Latin · derived fromsagma“packsaddle”
- Vulgar Latin · derived from*sauma
- French · borrowed fromsommelier“originally, a person in charge of the beasts of burden carrying wine”
- English todaysommelier
Borrowed from French sommelier (“originally, a person in charge of the beasts of burden carrying wine”), from somme (“pack”) + -ier (suffix forming the names of jobs). somme is from Vulgar Latin *sauma, from Latin sagma (“packsaddle”).
Words from the same roots
Latinsagma all →
summerseamsommersumpter
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.