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[–] 27 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Lox means specifically smoked salmon? Odd. "Lax" is the swedish word for just "salmon". I really thought lox was just another word for salmon.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The German word for salmon is "Lachs" but it's pronounced "Lax". I wonder who had the word first

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    A couple thousand years ago German and English hadn’t even split off from each other — they were the same language.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    The Italian word for earth is la terra, while in Spanish it's la tierra.

    Does it make any sense to say that one language had it first? Both are directly from Latin terra.

    English, German, Dutch, Swedish, etc. all descend from a common ancestor, Proto- Germanic. There's a lot of vocabulary they all inherited from it.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Same in Serbian, salmon is "losos", could refer to the fish, and specifically "smoked salmon" is "dimljeni losos".

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Thanks for chiming in! What's the word for smoke?

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