saveloy

(savə lo̵i′)

noun

a highly seasoned, dried English sausage

Origin: altered < Fr cervelas < MFr cervelat < It cervellata, assoc. with cervello, the brains, used in making it (< L cerebellum: see cerebellum); orig., however, prob. a deer-meat sausage < cervo, stag < L cervus: see cervid

See saveloy in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
A highly seasoned smoked pork sausage.

Origin:

Origin: Alteration of obsolete French cervelat

Origin: , from Italian cervellato

Origin: , ultimately from dialectal zervello, brain

Origin: , from Latin cerebellum

Origin: , diminutive of cerebrum, brain; see ker-1 in Indo-European roots

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