saucice

saucice

Old French

Alternative forms

• salsiche, salchice, sauseche, sausiche
• saucis, sauciz, saucys, sauchich (masculine forms)
• salsice, saussiche

Etymology

From Late Latin [farta] salsīcia, ultimately derived from Latin sāl (“salt”).

Pronunciation

• (archaic) IPA^(key): /salˈsitsə/, (northern) /salˈsitʃə/
• (classical) IPA^(key): /sau̯ˈsitsə/, (northern) /sau̯ˈsitʃə/
• (late) IPA^(key): /sau̯ˈsisə/, (northern) /sau̯ˈsiʃə/

Noun

saucice f (oblique plural saucices, nominative singular saucice, nominative plural saucices)

1. sausage

Descendants

• French: saucisse (see there for further descendants)
• Norman: saûciche, sâociche, sauchisse, sosich
• → Middle Dutch: *salcijs
  • Dutch: saucijs
• → Middle English: sawsiche, sawsege, sawsyge
  • English: sausage
    • → Scots: sausage
  • ⇒ Scots: sasser, sassinger

References

• saucis on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub