Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA salmon.
From Middle English lax, from Old English leax (“salmon”), from Proto-West Germanic *lahs (“salmon”), from Proto-Germanic *lahsaz (“salmon”), from Proto-Indo-European *laḱs- (“salmon, trout”). Cognate with Middle Dutch lacks, lachs, lasche (“salmon”), Middle Low German las (“salmon”), German Lachs (“salmon”), Norwegian laks (“salmon”), Danish laks (“salmon”), Swedish lax (“salmon”), Icelandic lax (“salmon”), Lithuanian lašišà (“salmon”), Latvian lasis, Russian лосо́сь (losósʹ, “salmon”), Albanian leshterik (“eel-grass”). Doublet of lox.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionlaxenm
- Inherited-form mentionleaxang
- Inherited-form mention*lahsgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*lahsazgem-pro
- Derivation mention*laḱs-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionlacksdum
- Cognate mentionlasgml
- Cognate mentionLachsde
- Cognate mentionlaksno
- Cognate mentionlaksda
- Cognate mentionlaxsv
- Cognate mentionlaxis
- Cognate mentionlašišàlt
- Cognate mentionlasislv
- Cognate mentionлосо́сьru
- Cognate mentionleshteriksq
- Doublet mentionloxen
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