▪ From Lat
salmō (gen.
salmōnis) ‘salmon’, »probably originally ‘leaper’, from Lat
salire ‘to leap’ […], though some dismiss this as folk etymology. Another theory traces it to Celtic
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« – etymonline.com. In Engl where the word entered via oFr
salmun, it replaced oEngl
læx (< PIE *
lax), the more usual word for the fish (ibid.).
▪ MSA has yet another expression for ‘salmon’:
ḥūt Sulaymān, lit., ‘Solomon’s (big) fish’ – a popular reinterpretation of
sal(a)mūn ? For
Sulaymān cf. ↗
s.v..