The word lox was one of the clues that eventually led linguists to discover who the Proto-Indo-Europeans were, and where they lived.Photograph by Helen Cook / Flickr One of my favorite words is lox,” says Gregory Guy, a professor of linguistics at New York University. There is hardly a more quintessential New York food than […]
Same in Serbian, salmon is “losos”, could refer to the fish, and specifically “smoked salmon” is “dimljeni losos”.
Thanks for chiming in! What’s the word for smoke?
“Dim”. “Dimljeni” is smoked, so just like in English.
Wow, interesting. Thanks!
In Swedish, it’s “rök”, like as in “Ragnarök”.