Where does “לאַקס” come from?

לאַקס (Yiddish) 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.

לאַקס (Yiddish): salmon

Definitions

  1. salmon

Ancestry of “לאַקס”, 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 “לאַקס”

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