| Remarks |
'Salmon' replaced Old English 'laex' (German 'lachs'; Swedish 'lax', source of English 'gravlax'; Yiddish 'laks', source of English 'lox', i.e., smoked salmon; Russian 'losos') borrowed from Anglo-Norman 'saumoun' from Latin 'salmo, -onis' linked to 'salire', i.e., to jump and hence, the leaping fish (p. 454 in Ref. 11979); 'trout' survived from Middle English derived from Old English 'truht' from Low Latin 'trocta, tructa', i.e., fish with sharp teeth, from Greek 'troktes', i.e., gnawer from 'trogein', i.e., to gnaw (p. 1266 in Ref. 11978). |