Where does “lax” come from?

lax (Middle English) comes from Old English leax, from Proto-West Germanic lahs, from Proto-Germanic lahsaz, from Chinese 拉薩, from Tibetan ལྷ་ས, from Old Tibetan ར་ས.

lax (Middle English): salmon

Definitions

  1. salmon

Ancestry of “lax”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Englishleaxa salmon
2Proto-West Germaniclahssalmon
3Proto-Germaniclahsazsalmon
4Chinese拉薩—
5Tibetanལྷ་སLhasa
6Old Tibetanར་ས—

Words derived from “lax”

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