| 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); 'bass' maybe related to Old English 'byrst', i.e., bristle because of its spiny fins, Old English term was 'bærs' survived to the 19th century as 'barse' from Germanic base 'bars-' (source of German 'barsch') (p. 54 in Ref. 11979). |