Where does “グラブラックス” come from?

グラブラックス (Japanese) comes from Swedish gravlax, from Swedish lax, from Old Norse lax, from Proto-Germanic lahsaz, from Chinese 拉薩, from Tibetan ལྷ་ས, from Old Tibetan ར་ས.

グラブラックス (Japanese): gravlax

Definitions

  1. gravlax

Ancestry of “グラブラックス”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Swedishgravlaxgravlax appetizer of dry-cured salmon
2Swedishlaxsalmon; a bill with nominal value 1000 kronor...
3Old Norselaxsalmon
4Proto-Germaniclahsazsalmon
5Chinese拉薩—
6Tibetanལྷ་སLhasa
7Old Tibetanར་ས—
Every word from Old Tibetan ར་ས →Every word from Tibetan ལྷ་ས →Every word from Chinese 拉薩 →