Etymology

gravadlax

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Swedish gravad lax
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  1. Swedish · borrowed fromgravad lax
  2. English todaygravadlax

Borrowed from Swedish gravad lax (literally “salmon dry-cured in salt and sugar”), from grava and lax.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.