saveloy

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saveloy

/ˈsævəlɔɪ/ UK
/ˈsævəˌlɔɪ/ US
/ˈsævəloɪ/ Australia
/ˈsɛvəloe/ New Zealand

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From a corruption of cervelat (“Swiss smoked beef or pork sausage”) or French cervelas (“type of thick, short sausage”) (perhaps influenced by Savoy (“historical region in western Europe now shared between modern France, Italy, and Switzerland”)), both from Old French cervelat, from Italian cervellata (compare Italian cervelletto (“cerebellum”), cervello (“brain”), probably from the fact that the sausage was originally made from pork brains), from Old Milanese Lombard zervelada, from Latin cerebellum (“brain; little brain”), from cerebrum (“brain”) (from Proto-Italic *kerazrom, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“head, top; horn”)) + -ellum (suffix forming diminutives).

noun saveloys · savaloy · savoloy

Australia, New Zealand, UK A seasoned and smoked pork sausage, normally purchased ready-cooked. Savoloys. TAKE ſix pounds of young pork, free it from bone and ſkin, and ſalt it with one ounce of ſalt-petre, and a pound of common ſalt, for two days; [...]
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noun seasoned and smoked pork sausage, normally purchased ready-cooked

中文	紅腸 /红肠 hóngcháng
Français	cervelas
Русский	сервела́т servelát, сарде́лька sardélʹka

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@misc{saveloy_2026,
  title = {saveloy},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/saveloy},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}