Where does “Lachs” come from?

Lachs (German) comes from Middle High German lahs, from Old High German lahs, from Proto-West Germanic lahs, from Proto-Germanic lahsaz, from Chinese 拉薩, from Tibetan ལྷ་ས, from Old Tibetan ར་ས.

Lachs (German): salmon, lax/lox; longissimus dorsi of the back...

Definitions

  1. salmon, lax/lox; longissimus dorsi of the back...

Ancestry of “Lachs”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle High Germanlahs—
2Old High Germanlahs—
3Proto-West Germaniclahssalmon
4Proto-Germaniclahsazsalmon
5Chinese拉薩—
6Tibetanལྷ་སLhasa
7Old Tibetanར་ས—

Words derived from “Lachs”

Every word from Old Tibetan ར་ས →Every word from Tibetan ལྷ་ས →Every word from Chinese 拉薩 →