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  • Victor@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    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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      9 months ago

      The German word for salmon is “Lachs” but it’s pronounced “Lax”. I wonder who had the word first

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        9 months ago

        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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        9 months 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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      9 months ago

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

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      9 months ago

      Lox is a rap group. Lax is an airport.

      I don’t know what that means, but I think Big Salmon is behind it.