alt Hacker NewsThink it comes from the german word for salmon, "Lachs", or at least an earlier version of the word.
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miramba • 02/20/2025
I learned about „lox“ in NYC, a native told me it comes from jiddish, which is kind of a german dialect.
Think it comes from the german word for salmon, "Lachs", or at least an earlier version of the word.
I learned about „lox“ in NYC, a native told me it comes from jiddish, which is kind of a german dialect.
Swedish is even closer, there it's "lax" [1].
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravlax