The word lox was one of the clues that eventually led linguists to discover who the Proto-Indo-Europeans were, and where they lived.Photograph by Helen Cook / Flickr One of my favorite words is lox,” says Gregory Guy, a professor of linguistics at New York University. There is hardly a more quintessential New York food than […]
German already calls it Lachs.
And in Swedish it’s Lax. Pretty sure it’s Laks in Norwegian as well.
Indeed it is! And lax in Icelandic as well, which remains the closest to old Norse.
It’s just the British trying to be fancy with their salmon.
And Danish too (laks)
Excellent. One step in the right direction. Good guy Germany.