Where does “lax” come from?

lax (Swedish) comes from Old Norse lax, from Proto-Germanic lahsaz, from Chinese 拉薩, from Tibetan ལྷ་ས, from Old Tibetan ར་ས.

lax (Swedish): salmon; a bill with nominal value 1000 kronor...

Definitions

  1. salmon; a bill with nominal value 1000 kronor...

Ancestry of “lax”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Norselaxsalmon
2Proto-Germaniclahsazsalmon
3Chinese拉薩—
4Tibetanལྷ་སLhasa
5Old Tibetanར་ས—

Words derived from “lax”

Every word from Old Tibetan ར་ས →