核心畫面

The Spanish word behind all of this simply means sauce, and further back the Latin word means salted. Hold that: one borrowed word that English has taken up more than once. The first time it came in, it brought a bowl of chopped tomato, onion and to the table. The second time, the same word arrived on a record label, and then on the floor where people were dancing to that record, and finally as a verb for what they were doing. The sources give us the word's history but not the reason the music took it, so the honest picture is one Spanish word being , rather than a sauce turning into a song.

這一切背後的西班牙字,意思就只是「醬」,再往前的拉丁字是「加了鹽的」。先記住這一點:一個被英文借過不只一次的字。第一更多收起這一切背後的西班牙字,意思就只是「醬」,再往前的拉丁字是「加了鹽的」。先記住這一點:一個被英文借過不只一次的字。第一次借進來,它端上桌的是一碗切碎的番茄、洋蔥和辣椒。第二次,同一個字出現在唱片上,接著出現在跟著那張唱片跳舞的地板上,最後還變成了一個動詞。來源只告訴我們這個字的來歷,沒有說音樂為什麼用它。所以比較誠實的畫面是:同一個西班牙字被重複使用,而不是醬變成了歌。

From the word’s history

Wiktionary records salsa as borrowed from Spanish salsa, sauce, from Latin salsus, salted, and notes that English sauce is a doublet of it, arriving by way of Old French. So salsa and sauce are the same word on two different routes.

來源記載 salsa 借自西班牙文 salsa(醬),再往前是拉丁文 salsus(加了鹽的),並指出英文的 sauce 是它的同源雙式詞,走的是古法文那條路。也就是說,salsa 和 sauce 是同一個字走了兩條不同的路進到英文。

Wiktionary, entry salsa, etymology field supplied in the evidence packet (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:133967458)

From the picture

同一個字借第二次:音樂、舞、動作

這一支跟醬共用一個西班牙字,但來源沒有說明音樂為什麼取這個名字。所以這裡只說它們同源,不說誰從誰來。可以想成同一個字被英文借了第二次,落在完全不同的場景上。

noun · B1

A kind of Latin American dance music that grew up in New York out of Cuban dance music, jazz and rock.

騷莎音樂

Also in this word

noun · A2

A sauce made from tomatoes, onions and chillies, eaten with Mexican and other Latin American food.

莎莎醬