| Remarks |
'White' from prehistoric Germanic 'khwitaz' (German 'weiss', Swedish 'vit', Danish 'hvid' and English 'white') Sanskrit 'sveta', i.e., white, and Russian 'svet', i.e., light, from Indo-European 'kwitnos, kwidnos' (p. 573 in Ref. 11979); '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) |