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salmūn سَلْمون , var. salamūn
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ID … • Sw – • BP … • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√SLM, SLMN, SLMWN
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salmon – WehrCowan1979.
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From Lat salmō (gen. salmōnis) ‘salmon’.
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▪ Contrary to what one may expect, salmūn ‘salmon’ is not a modern borrowing from Engl or Fr, but (accord. to Dozy) already attested as early as C13.1
1. In Qazwīnī II, 396, 6 a f.
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▪ 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 Celtic1 « – 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..
1. Cf. Rolland2014: »mot gaulois«.
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