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“Lox” is also one of the oldest words in English. It is a proto-Indo-European word that has retained the same meaning and sound for thousands of years. https:/

• paganel 4y ago
  The Romanian lostriță (Romanian for the Danube salmon [1]) also most probably comes from proto-Indo-European, even though Romanian etymology dictionaries "chickened" out on this and used old-Slavic as a source for it (probably because of the word's "ending", "-triță", which is indeed Slavic-sounding). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huchen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huchen
• trelane 4y ago
  According to Merriam-Webster, it arrived in English in th 1930s, from Yiddish: Merriam-Webster's definition of "lox": http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lox http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lox Corroborated by the OED: https://www.etymonline.com/word/lox https://www.etymonline.com/word/lox (exact year conflicts; 39 and 34, resp.) Given the excerpt of the original article (404) from your link, I'd guess the word traces back that far linguistically, and is more or less unmodified in sound, even though it only arrived in English recently.
  • paleotrope 4y ago
    Old English has leax "salmon" which is the same word. Which makes sense it's from the Germanic side of the fence.