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    9 months ago

    The English word comes from the Yiddish “laks,” which comes from German. So while it is pronounced the same in English as it was 8,000 years ago, it was also introduced to English relatively recently, in 1934.

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        9 months ago

        No. English is only around 1400 years old, so it’s a given that the word was introduced from somewhere else. It’s just surprising that it took well over a thousand years before it finally was.