Where does “gravlax” come from?

gravlax (Portuguese) 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.

gravlax (Portuguese): gravlax appetizer of dry-cured salmon

Definitions

  1. gravlax appetizer of dry-cured salmon

Ancestry of “gravlax”, 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་སEvery word from Tibetan ལྷ་སEvery word from Chinese 拉薩
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